Anne Perry's Christmas Crimes (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

Aprašymas

1 A Christmas Homecoming Charlotte Pitt’s mother, Caroline, is with her much younger husband, Joshua Fielding, in Whitby, the fishing village where Bram Stoker has Dracula first touch English soil. Joshua has arranged to produce a stage adaptation of Dracula, written by the daughter of millionaire Charles Netheridge, but tempers flare after a disastrous first read-through of the script. As snow swirls around the lonely hilltop mansion, a black-cloaked stranger emerges, evil broods, a body is found.

2 A Christmas Garland
1857 India. Soon after the violent Siege of Cawnpore, India is in rebellion. The British garrison jail has a guard killed, a prisoner escape. Medical orderly John Tallis is arrested as an accomplice, being the only soldier unaccounted for.

Chosen to defend Tallis, young Lieutenant Victor Narraway is not encouraged, his superiors merely want a show trial. But inspired by a simple Christmas garland, and his own stubborn faith in justice, Narraway is determined to find the truth.