Decked with Folly (Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery Series #17)

by Kate Kingsbury

Overview

In this mystery in Kate Kingsbury’s cozy series, the Pennyfoot Hotel is decked out in holiday style, but when things start to go awry, Cecily Sinclair Baxter learns that not everyone’s been nice this year…
 
When one of Cecily’s candlesticks disappears, she realizes someone is lacking in Christmas spirit. But petty thievery seems the least of her problems after she learns a former employee has been found dead in her duck pond. He hasn’t worked at the Pennyfoot in years, but his ex-wife is still their head maid—and she heads the list of suspects.
 
Now a killer and a thief must be taken off the guest list in order to put the merry back into Christmas...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101151129
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/03/2009
Series:	Pennyfoot Hotel Series , #17
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	377,740
File size:	279 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Kate Kingsbury is a full-time writer and the author of the Pennyfoot Hotel Mysteries, set in Edwardian England; the Manor House Mysteries, set in an English village during World War 2; and the Merry Ghost Inn Mysteries, a contemporary series set at a bed and breakfast on the Oregon coast. Born in London, England, she now lives in the United States.

Editorial Reviews

The Christmas curse (that is, “something quite dreadful happen[ing] to put a dampener on things”) strikes again in Kingsbury's diverting fifth holiday Pennyfoot Hotel mystery set in Edwardian England (after 2008's Ringing in Murder). Cecily Sinclair Baxter, the Pennyfoot's proprietress, immediately suspects foul play after the body of Ian McBride, the estranged husband of her chief housemaid, Gertie, surfaces in the hotel duck pond. While Gertie emerges as the prime suspect in her husband's demise, Kingsbury expertly strews red herrings to suggest plenty of others had reason to wish Ian dead. Subplots involving Ian's first wife and what various members of the household staff were up to on the eve of the murder add intrigue. This makes the perfect stocking stuffer for the cozy fan in your life. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for Decked with Folly

“A series that has become a dependable holiday classic, Decked with Folly provides the right amount of merriment and Victorian charm mixed with murder and mayhem.”—The Mystery Reader

“Full of twists and turns, just as a good mystery should be...I was thoroughly charmed by this delightful story.”—Fresh Fiction

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