A latest holiday-themed tale by the best-selling author of The Sheen on the Silk finds Hester Monk's co-worker, Claudine Burroughs, investigating a Christmas-party murder involving an endearingly romantic poet and the prostitute escort he has brought uninvited to an employee Christmas party.

As Christmas approaches, a former penniless orphan now studying medicine, Scuff, is forced to conduct surgery alone after his instructor and benefactor, Dr. Crowe, becomes involved with a former patient being forced to marry someone she doesn’t love.

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. So Gracie takes on Millie’s job herself, claiming Millie is sick and needs a few days to...

Visiting New York during the Christmas of 1904 to attend her friend's wedding, Jemima, the grown daughter of Charlotte and Thomas Pitt, is enlisted in an effort to track down the groom's estranged mother with the help of a handsome police officer.

Seeking comfort in his loneliness in a small Mediterranean hotel during the holiday season, widower James Latterly is introduced to the island's beauty by an orphaned teen before a violent quarrel and a shocking claim culminate in a murder that Charles realizes has been committed by a fellow guest.

Searching for a friend's troubled son during the holiday season, mathematician Henry Rathbone enlists the aid of clinic worker Squeaky and young doctor Crow before discovering that the youth has become involved with a tragic prostitute and is working for a major drug dealer.

Anne Perry’s Victorian Christmas novels have attracted as many faithful readers as her two New York Times bestselling series featuring investigators Thomas Pitt and William Monk. A Christmas Promise is the seventh in Perry’s holiday series, and it will surely bring joy to this special season.
Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London’s East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps encounters Minnie...

When Worm, a young orphan boy who works at the local clinic, sees Eloise being kidnapped by two men in the days leading up to Christmas, he immediately recruits Squeaky Robinson to help rescue her. But as they track Eloise down, they're surprised to hear that she does not, in fact, wish to be rescued. Instead, Eloise intends to bring the kidnappers, who drew her father into their shady business deals and then murdered him, to justice.