Christmas Stories (14 books in series)
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review 1: I have become a big fan of Anne Perry's Christmas stories. This is definitely not your typical Christmas story. It takes the reader into the underworld of Dickensian London and makes Oliver Twist look positively lighthearted. When just before Christmas a friend asks Henry Rathbon...
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review 1: Henry Rathbone is a minor character in the William and Hester Monk series, but in this Christmas story he takes (almost) center stage, along with Squeaky Robinson and the mysterious Dr. Crow. Together the three of them seek the prodigal son of one of Henry's friends, James Wentw...
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review 1: I liked the story and Minnie and Balthasar but it was not the best of Anne Perry. The story was maybe too low-key and the time I read it was most probabl wrong (should've read it the week of Christmas or around that time).Minnie is such a sweet girl that I understand why Gracie c...
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review 1: This book read like Sparknotes on Bram Stoker's Dracula. The dialogue was almost solely about the play these amateur actors were planning on performing the day after Christmas. There was a murder nearing the end of the book, but even that was boring. This is not a Christmas story...
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review 1: I liked this book but it will not put you in the holiday spirit. Most of the books in this series involve Charlotte Pitt who aids her policeman husband insolving crimes. In this story Charlotte is down for the count with bronchitis and can not respond to the request she receives ...
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review 1: A Christmas Grace by Anne Perry is book 6 of the Christmas mystery novel series, set in Victorian England. While the majority of the series is set in London, in this book Charlotte Pitt’s sister Emily Radley travels to the rugged west Ireland coastal town of Connemara. Charlotte ...
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review 1: 3 1/2 stars -I quite enjoyed this little mystery! It was a bit on the brief side, and would have benefited from being a bit longer and having a bit more depth. But I enjoyed the main character and the mystery itself was entertaining. I'd like to know what happens after the book...
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review 1: This was a fun cozy Christmas book to read. Short and sweet and touching. A story of an unlikely friendship formed between two young girls who might've never met if it weren't for a mysterious death and a lost but beloved donkey. The story is well written makes you feel like y...
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review 1: I listened to this story in CD the first Anne Perry story I've listened to. It was good but I missed reading! Ususally Emily helps her sister and Thomas Pitt to solve crimes, this time Emily is on her on "an all but forgotten town on the coast of Western Ireland. A tragic secret ...
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review 1: What a lovley Christmas read, this is number 11 in a series of Christmas novellas by the same author. You don't have to have read the previous books, but it does mention things that happened in previous books.Wonderful writing ill definitely be reading the other novellas, a great...
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review 1: Someone escapes from 19th century British jail in India and wrecks havoc on a group of soldiers. Poor young Lt. Narraway is assigned to defend a British soldier Corp. Tallis who is accused of aiding the escape and getaway!!!I did enjoy the book and am appreciating Anne Perry's Ch...
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review 1: This is the first Ann Perry book I have read. I like Agatha Christie mysteries because she gives you the information you need to solve the mystery. Very few writers can do this without giving away the ending. Ann Perry didn't give the information to solve this until the last few ...
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review 1: What the heck is this? Can you guess i wasn't impressed? I get it, it's a novelette and the "mystery" needs to be wrapped up in a hundred odd pages but sheesh, I feel like there was hardly any effort put into this at all. It was transparent and pretty obvious early on what was go...
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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 amb...