**A cold case adds an extra chill to the holiday season as bestselling author Anne Perry whisks readers to an English country house for a Christmas of secrets, soul-searching, and forgiveness.** As beautiful as it may be, their friends' country home is not where Lady Vespasia wishes to spend Ch
A Christmas gathering: a novel
β Scribed by Anne Perry
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Ballantine Books
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 137 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0525621024
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β¦ Synopsis
A cold case adds an extra chill to the holiday season as bestselling author Anne Perry whisks readers to an English country house for a Christmas of secrets, soul-searching, and forgiveness.
As beautiful as it may be, their friends' country home is not where Lady Vespasia wishes to spend Christmas with her new husband, Victor Narraway. She'd rather pass a relaxing holiday at home with himβespecially because Victor, former head of the London Special Branch, seems to be hiding some undercover dealings with the other guests who have gathered in the spacious home.
As tensions grow among the couples, the young and beautiful Iris Watson-Watt becomes the center of several men's focus. Unbeknownst to Vespasia, Iris carries a message for Victor that may help unmask a British traitor. As Victor plots his moves, he is reminded of a similar case from twenty years before, when a young Frenchwoman also carried a clandestine messageβone that resulted in her murder, still...
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