My wife Annie’s novella The Holly House Mystery is set during the week before New Year.
It’s an affectionate homage to Golden Age detective fiction and the enclosed world of country house murder.
The last days of 1931. The body of a young house-maid lies near the ruins of an ancient priory. How did she die… with only one set of footprints in the snow? Inspector Chance investigates murder in a snow-bound, Sussex village. As New Year approaches, can he work out whodunit before the house-party ends…
John Bainbridge Writer 