Decked with Folly (Special Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery Series #1)

9780425237878

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Kate Kingsbury

Genre Fiction Books & Literature

Format Mass Market Paperback

Dimensions 4.20 (w) x 6.70 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Pages 304

Publisher Penguin Group (USA)

Publication Date November 2010

ISBN 9780425237878

Book ISBN 10 0425237877

About Book

Make room for murder with all the trimmings...

The Pennyfoot Hotel is decked out in holiday style, but when one of Cecily's candlesticks disappears, she realizes someone is lacking in Christmas spirit. Still, petty thievery seems the least of her problems when she learns a former employee has been found dead in her duck pond. He hasn't worked at the Pennyfoot in years, but his ex-wife is still their head maid-and now she heads the naughty list of suspects.

Reviews

Publishers Weekly

The Christmas curse (that is, “something quite dreadful happen[ing] to put a dampener on things”) strikes again in Kingsbury's diverting fifth holiday Pennyfoot Hotel mystery set in Edwardian England (after 2008's Ringing in Murder). Cecily Sinclair Baxter, the Pennyfoot's proprietress, immediately suspects foul play after the body of Ian McBride, the estranged husband of her chief housemaid, Gertie, surfaces in the hotel duck pond. While Gertie emerges as the prime suspect in her husband's demise, Kingsbury expertly strews red herrings to suggest plenty of others had reason to wish Ian dead. Subplots involving Ian's first wife and what various members of the household staff were up to on the eve of the murder add intrigue. This makes the perfect stocking stuffer for the cozy fan in your life. (Nov.)

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