twelve drummers drumming a father christmas mystery

While his landing is bumpy, it's nothing to compared to that of Hector, Earl of Fairhaven, who leaps from 20,000 feet with disastrous results. To fundraise for the parish at bucolic Thornfield Regis, Father Tom Christmas skydives, plummeting for charity. But you can put it down and get up to stir the turkey gravy without regret.The blurb: A skydiving routine for charity goes horribly awry, leaving a wealthy lord dead and his household at odds as to whether it was an accident. The author sets the scene vividly so that we picture the setting and characters as though on a screen. Although the story is set in the 2013, the language reminds one of the Poirot stories set in the early 20th century. Rather amazing as he seems to have an unerring grasp of idiomatic English and cadence, at least from the point of view of those PBS English mysteries and the books in the Agatha Christie genre. Benison is the pen name of Canadian journalist Douglas Whiteway who was born in Canada and currently lives in Winnipeg. Red herrings abound and the reader spends much of the time spotting clues littered about the book, many of which lead nowhere, but it is good mental exercise.Ĭ.C.

If you are a devotee of rollicking action, this is not the book for you, but if you love stories featuring the byzantine world of English aristocracy and a cracking good mystery to boot, this is a good choice for the holiday armchair. The pace of the book is slow and wordy, in the manor of English country tales we see on PBS. Father Tom Christmas discovers the body and becomes enmeshed in the investigation. In Ten Lords A’Leaping, a group of charity sky diving English aristocrats gather at a country manor and there a murder occurs.

Benison has graced this season with T en Lords A-Leaping. The mystery series features Father Tom Christmas, a Vicar in a the small English country village of Thornford Regis. Having published Twelve Drummers Drumming in 2011 and Eleven Pipers Piping in 2012, C.C. This is the third of the mysteries based on the song, The Twelve Days of Christmas. And Ten Lords A’Leaping is the perfect English based mystery for the Christmas season. “Tis the season to curl up with a good book on the Christmas days, in front of the fire, if you have one, with an egg nog or rum toddy in hand.

Twelve drummers drumming a father christmas mystery