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A Christmas Garland (2012)

by Anne Perry(Favorite Author)

3.51 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0345530748 (ISBN13: 9780345530745)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Ballantine Books

series

Christmas Stories

review 1: Twenty year old Lieutenant Victor Narraway is posted to Cawnpore, India, a few months after a horrible massacre of the so-called Indian Mutiny. He is assigned to defend John Tallis, a medical orderly accused of helping a prisoner escape with information that enabled a deadly ambush. Narroway’s task seems hopeless because Tallis is about to be executed not based on any evidence, but because he has no alibi. An appalling legal situation sets up Narraway, who is not an investigator, to resolve the case based on the astuteness and insight that characterize him throughout the series. A suspenseful mystery although the connection to Christmas is tenuous.
review 2: Every year Anne Perry writes a short Christmas novel to mark the season. This year's offering is s... moreet in India in 1857 just months after the Siege of Cawnpore with all of its horrors on both sides. After a British soldier is killed and an Indian prisoner escapes, everyone at the British camp is under suspicion. A popular medical orderly, John Tallis, is arrested only because he is the only member of the British garrison whose movements couldn't be verified during the incident. It's up to Lt. Victor Narraway to discover the truth and he is helped by a Christmas garland made for him by a child preparing for the holidays. Not the strongest book of this Christmas series, but the information about British soldiers in India during and after the mutiny was fascinating. less

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