{"id":34001,"date":"2017-12-13T23:58:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T03:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=34001"},"modified":"2017-12-14T00:22:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T04:22:33","slug":"review-of-a-christmas-return-by-anne-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=34001","title":{"rendered":"Review of A Christmas Return, by Anne Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/christmas_return_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/christmas_return_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34007\" \/><\/a><em>A Christmas Return<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Anne Perry<\/p>\n<p>Ballantine Books, 2017.  176 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Anne Perry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Christmas murder mysteries have become a holiday tradition for me.  They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re cozy; they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re short; and reading one is a nice way to indulge myself as Christmas approaches.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Christmas Return<\/em> features Charlotte Pitt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grandmother Mariah Ellison, who is asked for help with a striking message \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a Christmas pudding with a fake cannonball inside.  She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s being told that someone is digging up the case about an old friend who was killed when his bookcase fell over and a decorative fake cannonball struck him, which happened twenty years before.<\/p>\n<p>The dead man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grandson is asking for her help.  He was only ten years old when the death happened.  Now he wants Mariah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s help clearing his grandmother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name.  Mariah was there at the time, so she alone can help.<\/p>\n<p>These Christmas mysteries are short, but Anne Perry gives us enough back story to care.  And there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something nice at Christmas about seeing justice done and good people vindicated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anneperry.co.uk\/\">anneperry.co.uk<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhousebooks.com\/\">randomhousebooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0425285073\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/christmas_return.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/christmas_return.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time.  The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christmas Return by Anne Perry Ballantine Books, 2017. 176 pages. Anne Perry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Christmas murder mysteries have become a holiday tradition for me. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re cozy; they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re short; and reading one is a nice way to indulge myself as Christmas approaches. A Christmas Return features Charlotte Pitt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grandmother Mariah Ellison, who is asked for help with [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-fiction-review","category-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34001","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=34001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}