{"id":291,"date":"2008-12-19T00:31:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T04:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/19\/review-of-a-christmas-grace-by-anne-perry\/"},"modified":"2009-02-07T23:28:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T03:28:16","slug":"review-of-a-christmas-grace-by-anne-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"Review of A Christmas Grace, by Anne Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image337\" height=\"207\" alt=\"CHRISTMas_grace.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/CHRISTMas_grace.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A Christmas Grace<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Anne Perry<\/p>\n<p>Ballantine Books, New York, 2008.\u00a0 210 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Starred review.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, there&#8217;s nothing like a nice cozy Christmas murder mystery by Anne Perry!\u00a0 It&#8217;s getting to be a tradition for me that I especially enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Radley gets a message that her estranged Aunt Susannah is dying.\u00a0 Aunt Susannah was cut off from the family years ago for marrying a Catholic.\u00a0 She lives in a remote part of Ireland, and now she wants to have family near her at Christmas, so she does not die alone.<\/p>\n<p>Emily comes and gets a feel for the coastal village.\u00a0 Then an enormous storm hits, with a shipwreck offshore and a stranger stranded on their beach.\u00a0 Emily learns that the town is haunted by the memory of a similar event.\u00a0 Only that earlier stranger was murdered.\u00a0 Did he ask questions too uncomfortable to answer?\u00a0 What did he know that he was killed for?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure how Anne Perry manages to make murder mysteries so beautifully communicate a cozy and warm spirit of Christmas.\u00a0 But her Christmas stories leave me feeling uplifted and remind me of what Christmas is all about.\u00a0 Lovely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0345502035\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/christmas_grace.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/christmas_grace.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christmas Grace by Anne Perry Ballantine Books, New York, 2008.\u00a0 210 pages. Starred review. Ah, there&#8217;s nothing like a nice cozy Christmas murder mystery by Anne Perry!\u00a0 It&#8217;s getting to be a tradition for me that I especially enjoy. Emily Radley gets a message that her estranged Aunt Susannah is dying.\u00a0 Aunt Susannah was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,5,6,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-fiction-review","category-mystery","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}