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The new murder mystery to escape with this winter from the 'modern rival to Agatha Christie'

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Murder At Midwinter

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The next installment in Ada Moncrieff's Christmas mystery series, Murder at Midwinter follows amateur sleuth Daphne once again as she attempts to solve a murder at her school reunion which seems to be tied to an unsolved kidnapping twenty years before.

A school reunion. A party to die for. 
 
December 1937. Daphne King is attending the twentieth anniversary reunion at her secondary 
school, St Cecilia’s Academy for Girls. It is a weekend of resurrected rivalries and alliances. A string of peculiar incidents prompts Daphne to suspect that she and her friends are being sent messages - or warnings - related to the disappearance of a classmate twenty years ago. 
 
It was a mystery which clouded their final year at the school - and one which Daphne, as a budding 
eighteen-year-old sleuth, solved. But now, the morning after the reunion, another of Daphne's old school friends is found dead; and Daphne finds herself in the role of investigator once more. Are the two cases linked? And can you ever really outrun your past? 
 
Readers LOVE Ada's festive romps 
'Reminds me of PG Wodehouse' 
'Compelling and engaging' 
'A modern rival to Agatha Christie' 
'A festive favourite' 
'Loved it'

Ada Moncrieff is the author of Murder Most Festive and Murder at the Theatre Royale. She lives and works in London.

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