'Tis the season to solve a mystery... Inspector Frank Gradsby returns in a dazzling crime novel, from the bestselling author of Murder at Holly House.
A case shrouded in secrets.
It's just before Christmas, 1953. Grasby and Juggers are investigating a puzzling murder in the remote village of Uthley's Bay. A fisherman has been found dead on the beach, with a stocking wound tight round his throat.
A festive mystery for one and all.
Hundreds of pairs of stockings, in neat cellophane bags, soon wash up on the shore. A blizzard cuts off Grasby and Juggers from help, and the local innkeeper is murdered. Any remaining Christmas cheer goes up in smoke as the villagers refuse to talk, leaving the two detectives chasing false leads in the snow.
A winter wonderland with no escape.
To make matters worse, Grasby can't stop thinking about stockings. Why does everyone seem to be enjoying strangely high standards of hosiery, even beneath their oilskins? Who is the sinister bespectacled man snooping around their hotel? And how can they solve the murder when everyone in the village is a suspect?
| ISBN: | 9780857506399 |
| Publication date: | 7th November 2024 |
| Author: | Denzil Meyrick |
| Publisher: | Bantam Press an imprint of Transworld |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 432 pages |
| Series: | A Frank Grasby Mystery |
| Genres: |
Crime and mystery: police procedural Historical crime and mysteries Comic (humorous) crime and mystery Thriller and Suspense |