The 24th thrilling Victorian mystery featuring William and Hester Monk, from the master of Victorian crime Anne Perry, the bestselling author of AN ECHO OF MURDER and REVENGE IN A COLD RIVER.
New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry's eighteenth enthralling Christmas novella. When Celia Hooper discovers that her dear friend Clementine is to marry widower Seth Marlowe - a man with a sinister past - she calls upon her husband, Detective John Hooper of the Thames River Police, to help her find out what really happened to Seth's first wife several years ago.