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Christmas Carol Murder
Christmas Carol Murder | Heather Redmond
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The latest novel from Heather Redmond's acclaimed mystery series finds young Charles Dickens suspecting a miser of pushing his partner out a window, but his fiance Kate Hogarth takes a more charitable view of the old man's innocence . . . London, December 1835: Charles and Kate are out with friends and family for a chilly night of caroling and good cheer. But their blood truly runs cold when their singing is interrupted by a body plummeting from an upper window of a house. They soon learn the dead man at their feet, his neck strangely wrapped in chains, is Jacob Harley, the business partner of the resident of the house, an unpleasant codger who owns a counting house, one Emmanuel Screws. Ever the journalist, Charles dedicates himself to discovering who's behind the diabolical defenestration. But before he can investigate further, Harley's corpse is stolen. Following that, Charles is visited in his quarters by what appears to be Harley's ghost--or is it merely Charles's overwrought imagination? He continues to suspect Emmanuel, the same penurious penny pincher who denied his father a loan years ago, but Kate insists the old man is too weak to heave a body out a window. Their mutual affection and admiration can accommodate a difference of opinion, but matters are complicated by the unexpected arrival of an infant orphan. Charles must find the child a home while solving a murder, to ensure that the next one in chains is the guilty party . . .
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Aimeesue
A Christmas Carol Murder | Heather Redmond
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#Audiocrafting. Ye gods, I make a mess 😂 Enjoying the audiobook. Story‘s easy enough to follow on audio and the narration is well done.

LeahBergen Whatcha making? 11mo
Aimeesue @LeahBergen Labels for the jams I made as gifts (chocolate cherry, holiday jam (strawberry cranberry) and jalapeño) and a lid cover for the paint can (unused!) that I‘m gifting some of them in. Can‘s been sitting in my house for umpteen years awaiting its fate, and I‘ve decided it‘s time ? 11mo
LeahBergen Ooo, they sound like lovely gifts! 11mo
Aimeesue @LeahBergen I hope the recipients enjoy them! They‘re fun to make! 11mo
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Aimeesue
A Christmas Carol Murder | Heather Redmond
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#audiocrafting I clearly have some Victorian holiday decoration sensibilities.
Also: I am now able to crack walnuts cleanly in half. Not sure when I‘ll ever use this talent again, but I‘m sure it will come in handy someday, hopefully in an Owen Meany sort of way. 😋

IndoorDame I‘m impressed! That kind of precision is tricky! 11mo
Ruthiella The EMT looked desperately around the crowd at the scene of the accident. “Does anyone know how to perfectly split a walnut shell? It‘s a matter of life or death!” A murmur coursed through the observers as they made way for a woman, a woman with courage in her eyes and a nutcracker gripped in her hand… (edited) 11mo
LeahBergen @Ruthiella 😆😆 11mo
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Aimeesue @IndoorDame The trick is to use a knife and go in at the stem end. Then you just sort of wedge it open. Most of them crack pretty neatly that way! 11mo
Aimeesue @Ruthiella Now THAT made me laugh! 🌰 🤣 🤣🤣 11mo
mabell @Ruthiella 😂😂 11mo
mabell Those look lovely by the way! 11mo
Aimeesue @mabell Aww, thanks! They are super shiny! 11mo
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KathyWheeler
A Christmas Carol Murder | Heather Redmond
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I can‘t really decide how I feel about this book. I loved having Charles Dickens and his fiancée, Kate Hogarth, as detectives; however, Kate didn‘t do much. When Jacob Harley falls to his death in front of them, Dickens investigates, but that investigation is him having a lot of sometimes boring conversations with people. Because I can‘t decide how I feel, I‘m giving it a soft pick because I love all things A Christmas Carol.

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Andrew65
A Christmas Carol Murder | Heather Redmond
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A couple of my favourite Christmas #Carols. Very different but both good, one is a historical murder mystery involving Charles Dickens, the other a Christmas light romance book. Gave A Christmas Carol Murder 4 stars and the other 4.5 stars.

See @AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks post today for the third Carol, Mr Dickens and His Carol, which I also loved. All great seasonal reads.

@Eggs @hannah-leelo

#DivineDecember

Eggs These look fun too 🎄🎶🎄 2y
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Deblovestoread
A Christmas Carol Murder | Heather Redmond
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A Christmas Carol Murder | Heather Redmond
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#WinterGames

Here‘s my print book TBR for #WinterCosyReadathon and #TeamGameSleighers. I also have 13 others on Kindle and audio including our team books. A full month of holiday/winter themed reading. All I need is some snow. ❄️❄️❄️

PuddleJumper I feel snuggly just looking at your stack 🤣 3y
JenReadsAlot Go team! 3y
Moll So lush!😍❄🎅 3y
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Laughterhp Oo I‘m going to have to look up Christmas Carol Murder!! 3y
sharread Hope all is well sending some ❤🎄 your way. Looking forward to playing the winter games with you. 3y
Ash.on.the.line In a holidaze is on my list too! 3y
ChasingOm I‘m looking forward to the 12 Dates of Christmas too! 3y
StayCurious Ooh thanks for sharing this readathon and your great stack of books! 3y
SeaToSkyes A Christmas Carol Murder sounds right up my alley! 3y
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ncsufoxes
Christmas Carol Murder | Heather Redmond
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Last book of the year and one more book off my Bingo board, 26 points. #merryreaders #christmasgames2020 #bookspinbingo I also realized that I forgot to post my numbers on Monday, 895. It took me a little while to get into this book and then I realized there were 2 more books before this one, which I‘m hindsight would have been helpful to read. But once I got into it I really enjoyed it.

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Andrew65
A Christmas Carol Murder | Heather Redmond
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Book 11/ 14 finished for #DashingDecember, Book 10/ 9 for #WinterSolstice

This book has Charles Dickens acting detective aided at times by his fiancé, very loosely based on characters that are in A Christmas Carol. I ended up really enjoying this one but did take me a while to get into it. Will be interested to read the other two in the series.

#WinterGames #BookSpinBingo #ReadYourWay #CrushtheRush #WinterSolstice #DashingDecember #24B4Monday

TheSpineView 🤩👍📖 4y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 4y
Bookgoil Well done! ❤️ 4y
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Andrew65
A Christmas Carol Murder | Heather Redmond
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Starting an appropriately themed book for today, which has Charles Dickens and his fiancé as lead characters investigating a murder of Jacob Harley!

#wintergames #Progressitdecember #Readyourway #wintersolstice #Crushtherush #24B4Monday #Bookspinbingo

TheSpineView 👍📖📚🎄 4y
Andrew65 @TheSpineView 😊🎅🎄 4y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4y
Andrew65 @TheAromaofBooks Interesting so far. 4y
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melissajayne
A Christmas Carol Murder | Heather Redmond
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3.75⭐️ An enjoyable book. I probably should have read the first two books before reading this one as there were things that were mentioned that I had no context for. #2020 #bookreview #bookstagram #fiction #historicalfiction #christmasfiction #ebook #christmascarolmurder #wintergames2020 #readnosedreindeer

Points: 25 + 10 + 1 = 36