the twelve clues of christmas rhys bowen

I spent a few days wondering why and I think it’s because I just wasn’t really in the mood to read. I mean we got to see many of our favorite characters and the mystery was a hard one to solve, but for some reason I had a hard time keeping my interested focused on this one. In any long standing series, some books are better than others and this for me was just the ok one and I can’t really put my finger on why. I didn’t see the ending coming and I was excited to see Georgie and Darcy make some progress in their relationship though for me it lacked a little of the chemistry that had in previous books-but it went somewhere so that was good.īowen has written a number of mystery series as well as stand alone books and they are always well done and a fun escape. I think I would have liked it better at Christmas as I had planned, but it was still a fun mystery. I don’t know if this was my favorite book in the series, but it was fun all the same. But after Darcy shows up beneath the mistletoe, anything could be possible in this wicked wonderland. Perhaps a recent prison break could have something to do with it…that, or a long-standing witch’s curse. On my second day, another so-called accident results in a death – and there’s yet another on my third.

The village is like something out of A Christmas Carol! But no sooner have I arrived than a neighborhood nuisance, a fellow named Freddie, falls out of a tree dead. So it’s a miracle when I contrive to land a position as hostess to a posh holiday party in Tiddleton. Meanwhile Mummy is holed up in a tiny village called Tiddleton-under-Lovey with that droll Noel Coward! And I’m snowed in at Castle Rannoch with my bumbling brother, Binky, and sourpuss sister-in-law, Fig. On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me-well, actually, my true love, Darcy O’Mara, is spending a feliz navidadtramping around South America.

I needed a pallet cleansing book lately though and I thought this was the ticket to clearing my head after some heavy reading. I meant to pick this one up at Christmas time as this one is obviously set around the holidays, but I didn’t and then I just forgot about it.

I read a few of the later books and then went back and read a few of the first books in the series but then I kind of stalled on the series and moved on to something else. The Royal Spyness books are at the top of that list. Over the last year or so, I have been making a big effort to go back and catch up on some long running historical mystery series that I have loved but haven’t read all the books.

The twelve clues of christmas rhys bowen