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Barbara Gordon, September 15, 2008

This was my first Joyce Christmas mystery, and my last. The blurb suggests that it's Old Home Week for fans, with two favourite sleuths together, and the author might have done better to write just for the fans, and omit the background material on each character and her relationships, material which was repeated and expanded in every chapter. The style was leaden and clunky, and all the characters spoke in the same stilted, formal way, except the outrageously southern one, who spoke the same way but with an accent.
The identity of the murderer was held back in a contrived and hand-waving way, while every other bit of motive and plot-twist was painstakingly explained by author voice-over, leaving next to nothing for an alert reader to figure out--perhaps just as well, since after a few chapters I was more drowsy than alert.

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