Title: Anne Perry's Christmas mysteries
Subtitle: two holiday novels
Description: Christmas guest: Grandmama arrives on a holiday visit to the home of Charlotte's parents, where a fellow guest--an outcast from her own family--is subsequently murdered.

Christmas secret: Dominic Corde is thrilled to fill the robe as substitute vicar in the village of Cottisham, while the Reverend Wynter is away on a three-week Christmas holiday. However, it turns out that the Reverend Wynter isn't on holiday at all-and that something very sinister has transpired.  As a blizzard leaves Cottisham treacherously snowbound and the isolated village swirls with unsavory secrets, Dominic and Clarice suddenly find themselves in deadly danger.
Subjects: Grandmothers, Women detectives, British in fiction, Clergy in fiction, British, Fiction, Crimes against, Clergy, Women detectives in fiction, Grandmothers in fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Places: France, Loire River Valley, Hertfordshire (England), Loire River Valley (France)