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Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen

Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen, November 2015
Year-Round Christmas #1
by Vicki Delany

Berkley Prime Crime
304 pages
ISBN: 0425280802
EAN: 9780425280805
Kindle: B00SI0B5R6
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"Rudolph, New York is under attack by a madman set on destroying the Christmas celebrations."

Fresh Fiction Review

Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen
Vicki Delany

Reviewed by Leanne Davis
Posted January 7, 2016

Holiday | Mystery Cozy

Merry Wilkinson has returned to her hometown of Rudolph, New York and opened a gift shop with uniquely crafted gifts and decorations. She is excited about the annual Christmas parade. Merry grew up in an unusual family. Her father, Noel, has been the town Santa for years. Her mother is a former opera star who teaches singing to local children. Someone sabotages Merry's float, disqualifying her from the best of parade voting. A reporter from a prestigious magazine in Britain is in town interviewing all the town businesses with the promise of a nice article supporting the town's celebrations. After a party held in his honor, Merry is stunned to stumble across the reporter's body in the park. The investigation will put a crimp in the holiday celebrations. When the death is labeled suspicious, Merry's friend Vicky's shop, the bake shop that catered the party, is closed for a couple of days during their biggest business opportunity of the year. As small acts of sabotage are perpetrated during the next few days, Merry and Russ, a local reporter start trying to discover who would want to destroy the town's reputation and businesses. Ms. Delany has started a promising new series with REST YE MURDERED GENTLEMEN, the first in A Year-Round Christmas Mysteries. Merry is a local who made it in New York, but has returned to her home to start a new life. Her familiarity with the locals and the small town give her some unique insights into what might be going on. She seems to be developing a relationship with one of her artists, but Russ, the reporter helping her investigate, is doing his best to interfere. Merry is torn between what she wants and what she needs to accomplish. I really enjoyed the characters in REST YE MURDERED GENTLEMEN. The Rudolph and the animosity between another small town figure into the idea of who might have done this, but even Merry is surprised when the killer is exposed. The villain came as a complete surprise to me since I purposely try not to figure out the identity of the killer.

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SUMMARY

FIRST IN A NEW SERIES!

In Rudolph, New York, it’s Christmastime all year long. But this December, while the snow-lined streets seem merry and bright, a murder is about to ruin everyone’s holiday cheer…


As the owner of Mrs. Claus’s Treasures, Merry Wilkinson knows how to decorate homes for the holidays. That’s why she thinks her float in the semi-annual Santa Claus parade is a shoe-in for best in show. But when the tractor pulling Merry’s float is sabotaged, she has to face facts: there’s a Scrooge in Christmas Town.

Merry isn’t ready to point fingers, especially with a journalist in town writing a puff piece about Rudolph’s Christmas spirit. But when she stumbles upon the reporter’s body on a late night dog walk—and police suspect he was poisoned by a gingerbread cookie crafted by her best friend, Vicky—Merry will have to put down the jingle bells and figure out who’s really been grinching about town, before Vicky ends up on Santa’s naughty list…


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