HAVE you ever wondered how everyone's favourite reformed miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, dealt with life a year after his brush with some truth-telling ghosts!?
It’s a conundrum that Andreina Cordani (pictured below) – author of dark thrillers for
young adults as well as Christmas murder mysteries for adults – tackles with
her trademark wit and imagination in a fabulous, festive-flavoured whodunit twist
on Dickens’ much loved classic.
Last Christmas, Scrooge was visited by three festive spirits, and the bleak vision of his future has haunted him ever since. He wants to be a good man, and he never wants to see another ghost as long as he lives.
But changing your ways for a day is easy… changing your ways forever is a little trickier. Almost a year on, Scrooge is slipping back into bad habits.
When a lucrative business opportunity comes his way, he jumps at the chance to make some quick money... to give to the poor, obviously.
Scrooge’s investigation takes him from the heights of
business on the Royal Exchange to the depths of London’s criminal underworld
alongside the formidable Widow Tassell, boot-boy Jem and Tiny Tim. And as
Christmas draws closer, Scrooge begins to realise there’s more at stake than
his own soul.
If it’s atmospherics you’re after this Christmas, Cordani (pictured left) places them at centre stage in this deliciously spine-tingling and perfectly
plotted murder mystery which delivers all the timeless Victorian-style macabre,
mystique, warmth and wonder of Dickens’ festive masterpiece.
(Zaffre, hardback, £16.99)
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