A Christmas Return
by Anne Perry
Headline Publishing Group
ISBN 978 1 4722 3425 4
One of the many novellas with Christmas in the title by Anne Perry, a New York Times bestselling author, this story is set in Victorian England.
A strange present arrives for Mariah Ellison, a one time friend of Rowena Wesley, grandmother of Peter Wesley. It seems he recalls "Aunt Mariah" as someone who would be able to assist him to get his grandmother to fight for the family name after it is assumed that she had murdered her husband, a lawyer who strangely withdrew from defending the town doctor, Dr Owen Durwood who had been accused of raping and murdering a young girl in Haslemere.
Will Mariah be able to follow the possible leads with Peter and bring the accused to face justice?
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