Murder On Christmas Eve: Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season (Vintage Murders)

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The advantage of short stories are that you can dip in and out of the book and read a story in between other busy moments in your social advent calendar.

Like many other short story collections that involve some sort of theme, there are tales here that are full of Christmas spirit and others that merely use this time of year as an ironic reference point for the central action.

She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. A cheerful, but sometimes sinister collection tales of murder and mystery in and around the festive season. I get mad when I excitedly pick up a collection of stories with "Christmas" in the title only to find only one Christmas story therein.

Wellcome Collection is a free visitor destination that explores the connections between medicine, life and art. The detective soon works out that it would have to be her cousin, who is a gymnast; he used her slippers and hand walked over to the lady's house and used the hedge to push himself up. Val has served as a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, and was Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017.Until on Christmas Eve she gets killed and her handbag and jewelry stolen, the local police man starts his investigation, with the troublesome cat who seems to be following him around. However, just because many of the others are quite short doesn't mean that they fail as stories, just that they tend to focus on a relatively small element of the 'how could that have happened? Some of my favorites in this collection are: 'The Trinity Cat' by Ellis Peters that features a Church cat who may be the key witness in a murder. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The short stories in this book are concise and they all deal with either murder or tragic incidents – just what I was looking for and yet… I did not enjoy this book as much as I wanted to.