This week's top pick is C.C. Benison's Twelve Drummers Drumming which is the first in what promises to be a series (can you guess where it's going?) featuring recently-widowed vicar, Tom Christmas.
This follows in the footsteps of all British 'cozies' with a quirky cast of characters including Father Christmas himself. The murder itself feels a bit forced, but Benison keeps things moving well enough. The only time the books loses me is the moments when the vicar broods over his motherless daughter. Not that that's a bad thing. It just doesn't seem to fit the story.
I will definitely be checking out Eleven Pipers Piping or Lords a-Leaping or whatever.
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