Anne Perry: A Christmas Legacy (USA 2021)

From the Publisher:
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 Journal

After 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.

Anne Perry: A Christmas Legacy. A Novel. Ballantine, ISBN: 9780593159392 (November, 2021), 192 p., $21.00, eBook $9.99.

Anne Perry: A Christmas Legacy (UK 2021)

From the Publisher:
New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry's nineteenth heart-warming Christmas novella.
Gracie Tellman is preparing for Christmas with her husband and three young children when Millie Foster calls upon her. As a maid at Harcourt House, Millie is terrified that sinister goings-on, including the disappearance of food from the kitchens, will lead to her unfair dismissal, and she begs Gracie to investigate the situation.

With the promise that she will be back in time for Christmas, Gracie takes Millie's place in the Harcourt household, never imagining the discovery she then makes. For the servants have been keeping a secret and their efforts are about to be rewarded in the most extraordinary way...

A Christmas Legacy is a heart-warming festive mystery set in Victorian London from the pen of the New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry.

Anne Perry: A Christmas Legacy. The joy of giving goes beyond the grave... Headline, ISBN: 9781472275127 (October, 2021), 208 p., £16.99, eBook £9.99.