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There are six, seven to eight suspects all who have read and handled the manuscript throughout the night, though none of them took it. This one I didn’t like as much, it was a story within a story, slow and didn’t really capture my attention. Though the murderer, made a mistake and left behind evidence which lead the detective to find out who it was.
As my last Christmas murder mystery was a disappointment, I jumped right into this with fingers crossed the title really meant what it read. I can’t say I really liked it, then again it’s a book with 10 short stories and each story has a different approach. Though there is a detective and his wife attend a murder mystery party, that has a MP who is trying to make it public who criminals, the detective clocks Santa. Chief Superintendent Seb Adjei-Addoh, local policing commander for Southwark, said patrols will be increased in the area over the coming days. A Wife in a Million by Val McDermid, a rather chilling story told in just sixteen pages, As Dark as Christmas Gets by Lawrence Block, masterful tale about a missing manuscript told in forty pages and No Sanity Clause by Ian Rankin.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.
Some of them seemed like they should have been longer but instead have been reduced, too densely packed for a good short story. In Ritual, pioneering scientist Dimitris Xygalatas leads an enlightening tour through one of the most shadowy realms of human behaviour. The detective makes Santa hand over his stolen goods and lets him go free, though he has food hidden in his clothes! In this digital and printed play at home adventure, you'll meet Sir Robert Peel who will set you on your case to solve the festive crime.However, I did enjoy The footprint in the sky, A wife in a million, The dagger with wings and Cambrice tea. While the world sleeps, snow falls gently from the sky, presents lie under the tree … and murder is afoot. This was a good one, a young woman wakes up to find that she has be accused of attempted murder, but having no recollection of it.
Her series featuring criminal profiler Tony Hill was the basis for the TV series The Wire in the Blood for ITV. The ironic part of the story is that they tie the murders to an unemployed man seeking revenge against companies that rejected him. So he hires a detective from Scotland Yard to investigate, inviting him to The Santa Claus Club, where throughout the night the target seems to be getting drunker, and drunker until he drops dead. What hits home is that the Detective on the case has an unemployed wife at home who could very easily have been pushed to the same lengths as the suspect in custody.I’ve never been a huge fan of short stories, there’s never quite enough oomph in them and I’m always left wildly disappointed. This one is about a man just out of prison with no real way to make money, so he decides to dress as Santa and raid a hotel. Christmas is just around the corner, but DON’T PANIC: we’re here to provide you with the ultimate festive gifting inspiration, and remind you that books are certainly the easiest presents to wrap…! TheDeorhord by Hana Videen is a fascinating collection of medieval creatures large and small, and a delightful dive into Old English.
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