Surprisingly good mystery which kept me guessing despite the clue of the title! It has been a while since I have read any of this series and I found this one was less silly than I had remembered. ( )

The Twelve Clues of Christmas
4 Stars

Lady Georgiana Rannoch manages to avoid spending Christmas with her idiotic brother and priggish sister-in-law by agreeing to act as hostess to a posh house party in Tiddleton-Under-Lovey. Unfortunately, things go awry early on when a young man is found dead in a tree and several others in the village die from apparent accidents. Is all of this merely coincidence or does someone have a grudge against the townsfolk?

This is such a wonderfully zany series and Katherine Kellgren's narration never fails to have me laughing out loud at Georgie's antics.

The mystery is very entertaining with the deaths occurring in accordance with the Twelve Days of Christmas song. That said, it takes Georgie far too long to catch on to this particular twist.

Georgie and Darcy's romance is finally getting somewhere and it was good to have him front and center after his being virtually MIA in the previous book. Looking forward to them finally getting their much deserved HEA.

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This is a charming mystery story set in England between the World Wars. Lady Georgianna, always broke and always trying to escape her in-laws responds to an ad for a hostess. The owner of a large estate is trying to earn some coin herself by offering a perfect traditional English House party. the book is filled with the charming images of English holidays and meals and the mystery is l;liberally seasoned with lots of red herrings. Every day a new -seemingly random person is dying a bizarre accidental way. ( )

Almost perfect Christmas fare except that the murder was too obvious too early. ( )

It's 1933 and Lady Georgiana Rannoch decides that she cannot spend the New Year at Rannoch Castle with her sister in law and her family. So she answers an advertisement in The Lady for a social hostess in a village in Devon which just happens to be the same place her mother and grandfather are staying with Noel Coward. Then the 'accidents' start happening.
Enjoyable. My first book from this series, will look out now for the first in the series ( )