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Carregando... Twelve drummers drumming : a mystery (edição: 2011)de C. C. Benison
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. 2½ stars. While the mystery aspect was decent, there was something in the setting or writing that struck me as a bit wrong - I can't really describe what it is. I will try another one to see if this feeling is specifically related to this book or affects the whole series... ( ) First in the "Father" Tom Christmas cozy mystery series, and a great start to a promising series. Albeit a cozy mystery, it is by no means a "fluffy" one. The Vicar, preferring "Tom" over "Father Christmas", wrestles with trying to keep his precocious 9 year old daughter as innocent as she deserves, in what was mistakenly thought to be a bucolic village. Being of the cloth, he is naturally trusted and quickly has the pulse of this small town, which he finds in turmoil. With a desire to return Thornford Regis to stasis, the good Vicar deftly unravels the intertwining deceits, mistaken identities, and harbored resentments. This is a thoroughly enjoyable read and highly recommended. Twelve Drummers Drumming is a cozy English mystery which is perfect for a quiet read with a lap quilt and a favourite hot drink on a cold winter's day. The cast of characters, as introduced in a section at the beginning of the novel as "Inhabitants of Thornford Regis", hold promise for several future books in this new series. They are complex with only a few of what is likely many secrets hinted at throughout Twelve Drummers Drumming, building the promise for more captivating reading in the years to come. I look forward to learning more of the "Inhabitants of Thornford Regis" through the eyes of Father Christmas.
In Benison’s first series, Queen Elizabeth II helped out with the sleuthing. This new book begins a trilogy featuring a clergyman named Christmas in the role of detective. Father Christmas, nudge nudge. The scene is Thornford Regis, which may look like a piece of picturesque English countryside but is really a cover for all kinds of nasty thoughts and deeds. For readers who love cozies, the book represents a form of paradise, even if its imaginative author — Benison is a pseudonym — happens to be a native of Winnipeg, Man. Pertence à sérieTom Christmas (1)
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HTML:Father Tom Christmas moves to the picturesque English hamlet of Thornford Regis to become its new vicar and to seek a peaceful haven. But inside the empty village hall, the huge Japanese o-daiko drum thatâ??s featured in the May Fayre festivities has been viciously sliced openâ??and curled up inside is the bludgeoned body of Sybella Parry, the daughter of the choir director. Realizing this village is not the refuge heâ??d hoped for, Father Tom comes to a disturbing conclusion: Sybellaâ??s killer must be one of his parishioners. No one is above suspicionâ??not Sebastian John, the deeply reserved verger, nor Mitsuko Drewe, a local artist, nor Colonel Northmore, survivor of a World War II prison camp. And over all hangs the long-unsolved mystery of a sudden disappearance, one that brought Father Tom to this picture-perfect place to liveâ??or die. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from C. C. Benison's Eleven P Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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