The Christmas Tree MurdersKatie LumsdenLabel: Michael Joseph LtdDescription: *PRE-ORDER NOW - THE DELICIOUSLY DARK VICTORIAN MURDER MYSTERY PERFECT FOR GIFTING THIS CHRISTMAS*It is December 1884 and we have a murder to solve.Come my friend – follow me for we have much to see.First a house: a brand-new country estate with all the latest technological innovations – electric light-bulbs running water dumb-waiters hydraulic lifts.Second a family: celebrated inventor Sir Russell Morgan his grown-up children his beautiful new wife.Next their guests: the great and the good (well the rich) dressed in all their finery eager to celebrate Christmas at Clifftop House.And finally: a body – for what festive mystery would be complete without one? Here lies one of the servants laid out beneath the Christmas-tree his hands covered in burns.The police dismiss his death as an accident but our heroine Millie – kitchenmaid and keen reader of sensation novels – is not so sure.Christmas Day is fast approaching. Can the mystery be solved before the killer strikes again?PRAISE FOR KATIE LUMSDEN'Vivid haunting surprising' Stacey Halls'A full-blooded gothic mystery with bite’ Emma Stonex
