{"id":965,"date":"2009-12-17T22:57:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T02:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=965"},"modified":"2009-12-17T22:57:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T02:57:05","slug":"review-of-a-christmas-promise-by-anne-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"Review of A Christmas Promise, by Anne Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas_promise.jpg\" alt=\"christmas_promise\" title=\"christmas_promise\" width=\"113\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-966\" \/><em>A Christmas Promise<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Anne Perry<\/p>\n<p>Ballantine Books, New York, 2009.  193 pages.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing like a cozy Christmas murder mystery to put me in the mood for the holiday!<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, I&#8217;ve come to enjoy Anne Perry&#8217;s Christmas offerings.  They are short and quick to read.  They have just a hint of sweetness, but no overt sentimentality, and enough tension and mystery to provide a puzzle and a sense of relief when the danger is past.<\/p>\n<p>Two poor girls in Victorian England are the focus of <em>A Christmas Promise.<\/em>  Thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps comes across little eight-year-old Minnie Maude, looking for Charlie, her Uncle Alf&#8217;s donkey.  Minnie Maude insists that her uncle was murdered, and that Charlie must be lost and frightened because he didn&#8217;t come home.<\/p>\n<p>Gracie&#8217;s compassion for the little girl quickly gets her involved.  But what can two girls do if Uncle Alf was murdered?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0345510666\/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_promise.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/christmas_promise.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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christmas Promise by Anne Perry Ballantine Books, New York, 2009. 193 pages. There&#8217;s nothing like a cozy Christmas murder mystery to put me in the mood for the holiday! Seriously, I&#8217;ve come to enjoy Anne Perry&#8217;s Christmas offerings. They are short and quick to read. They have just a hint of sweetness, but no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,5,32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-fiction-review","category-historical","category-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}