If you are a devotee of rollicking action, this is not the book for you, but if you love stories featuring the byzantine world of English aristocracy and a cracking good mystery to boot, this is a good choice for the holiday armchair. The pace of the book is slow and wordy, in the manor of English country tales we see on PBS. Father Tom Christmas discovers the body and becomes enmeshed in the investigation. In Ten Lords A’Leaping, a group of charity sky diving English aristocrats gather at a country manor and there a murder occurs. Benison has graced this season with T en Lords A-Leaping. The mystery series features Father Tom Christmas, a Vicar in a the small English country village of Thornford Regis. Having published Twelve Drummers Drumming in 2011 and Eleven Pipers Piping in 2012, C.C. This is the third of the mysteries based on the song, The Twelve Days of Christmas. And Ten Lords A’Leaping is the perfect English based mystery for the Christmas season. “Tis the season to curl up with a good book on the Christmas days, in front of the fire, if you have one, with an egg nog or rum toddy in hand.
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