num_pages: 188
description: Thomas and Charlotte Pitt's former maid takes a new job as Christmas approaches--but not everyone in the household may survive the holidays in this tension-filled novel from bestselling author Anne Perry.Perry's Victorian-era holiday mysteries [are] an annual treat.--The Wall Street JournalAfter leaving her position with Charlotte and Thomas Pitt to get married Gracie thought her days as a maid were behind her. But when her good friend's daughter Millie turns up on her doorstep just before the holidays frantic because things are going missing from the kitchen in the household she serves Gracie knows she has to find out what is happening. Millie whose mother died years before can't risk being accused of theft and getting thrown out on the street with no character references for a new position.So Gracie takes on Millie's job herself claiming Millie is sick and needs a few days to recuperate. At first it seems that all is normal in the household even if the couple's elderly granny keeps entirely to her bedroom upstairs. But Gracie begins to realize that Granny is suffering from neglect--and rather than helping her the husband and wife have decided she isn't dying fast enough.
language: English
title: A Christmas Legacy
publisher: Ballantine Books