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A Christmas escape, Anne Perry

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A Christmas escape

Anne Perry

Lonely Charles Latterly arrives at his small hotel hoping that the island s blue skies and gentle breezes will brighten his spirits. Unfortunately, there s no holiday cheer to be found among his fellow guests, who include a pompous novelist, a stuffy colonel, a dangerously ill-matched married couple, and an ailing old man. The one charming exception is orphaned teenager Candace Finbar, who takes Charles under her wing and introduces him to the island s beauty. But the tranquility of the holiday is swiftly disrupted by a violent quarrel, an unpleasant gentleman s shocking claims of being stalked, and the ominous stirrings of the local volcano. Then events take an even darker turn: A body is found, and Charles quickly realizes that the killer must be among the group of guests