Dark secrets that threaten the highest of New York society will lead Jemima Pitt into danger…
Thomas Pitt’s daughter Jemima, now a young woman, leads the cast of Anne Perry’s enthralling festive mystery A New York Christmas. Perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom and Sarah Perry.
‘Poignant… should be on the Christmas stocking list of anyone who likes a sniffle of nostalgia’ – Washington Times
New York, 1904, Jemima Pitt arrives in a city where new American money and old English aristocracy collide. She’s here to chaperone her friend, Delphinia, who has crossed the ocean to marry one of New York’s richest men, but Jemima discovers a secret that could destroy Phinnie’s future.
Drawn into the crisis, Jemima desperately wants to protect her friend. And she must use all her courage and wits to decide whom to trust, and how to thread her way through the snowy streets of this brash new city.
What readers are saying about A New York Christmas:
‘A must buy must read! A first class brilliant murder mystery‘
‘The descriptions of New York at Christmas were fantastic‘
‘Five stars‘
Thomas Pitt’s daughter Jemima, now a young woman, leads the cast of Anne Perry’s enthralling festive mystery A New York Christmas. Perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom and Sarah Perry.
‘Poignant… should be on the Christmas stocking list of anyone who likes a sniffle of nostalgia’ – Washington Times
New York, 1904, Jemima Pitt arrives in a city where new American money and old English aristocracy collide. She’s here to chaperone her friend, Delphinia, who has crossed the ocean to marry one of New York’s richest men, but Jemima discovers a secret that could destroy Phinnie’s future.
Drawn into the crisis, Jemima desperately wants to protect her friend. And she must use all her courage and wits to decide whom to trust, and how to thread her way through the snowy streets of this brash new city.
What readers are saying about A New York Christmas:
‘A must buy must read! A first class brilliant murder mystery‘
‘The descriptions of New York at Christmas were fantastic‘
‘Five stars‘
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Reviews
Praise for Anne Perry: Poignant... should be on the Christmas stocking list of anyone who likes a sniffle of nostalgia
Perry's Victorian-era holiday mysteries... are for many an annual treat
Perry, as always, does an admirable job of pulling back the Christmas tree skirt and showing the darker underside tucked away behind the trappings of a Victorian holiday
Delightful... The perfect gift for a whodunit addict who likes to curl up with a good book after Christmas lunch
[A] heart-warming, if crime-tinged, complement to the holiday season
A bite-sized mystery that could be fitted in after your Christmas lunch
Perry's gift is that she can evoke a sense of place and time while still producing the thrills and chills expected of a modern-day mystery writer
In Anne Perry's gifted hands, the puzzle plays out brilliantly
[Perry] writes with detail that invades the senses
