Happy Bloody Christmas

Agatha Christie meets Gill Sims in this Christmas murder mystery with a world-weary heroine, for whom getting rid of an unexpected dead body is just another thing to add to the bloody to do list... Christmas is all about lists. To do lists. Shopping lists. Lists to bloody Santa. And doesn't Anna Johnson know it. Waking up on Christmas Eve after the annual Johnson party, she's hungover, exhausted and really sick and tired of Christmas already. All she wants is to tick the last things off her endless list and sit down with the world's biggest glass of wine. But apparently that's not going to happen any time soon because now her list looks like this: 1. 2. 3. 4. A mysterious death in her home is the last thing she has time for right now, but with police officers who could double as the Chuckle Brothers and a husband and two kids intent on watching Christmas films, it looks like it's up to her to find out what the hell's gone on. Oh—and figure out what to do with the body before her in-laws arrive. Happy bloody Christmas indeed.

When Anna decides to take her family away for Christmas to avoid a repeat of the 'dead man in the larder' debacle, she finds herself plunged into another festive fiasco when a body turns up in the library of their supposedly 'idyllic' rural retreat. With a dubious double booking, an unexpected snowstorm, secret tunnels and the mysterious Mrs Haddock to contend with, can Anna and her unlikely allies save Christmas or will this holiday be their last?