Tinsel and Trickery

Penrose & Pyke Mysteries #5.5

by Rose Pascoe

Penrose & Pyke have until Christmas Eve to save the orphans’ home, by unravelling a tangle of tinsel and trickery.Private detective Charlie Pyke was looking forward to spending a quiet Christmas with his fiancée, Grace Penrose. Instead, Charlie and Grace must stop a dubious deal, find a sneak thief and foil a mischievous brother, with the help of a pair of inquisitive orphans and the spirit of a dear departed grandmother.If they can decipher the clues and make it through the dessert course, they just might survive their first family Christmas together.Tinsel and Trickery is a half-length book in the Penrose & Pyke Mystery series (Book 5.5), set in 1890s New Zealand.

Genres: Mystery, Historical, Cozy Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Christmas

138 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 7, 2023

About the author

Rose Pascoe writes historical mysteries with a dash of romance, when she isn’t plotting real-life adventures. She lives in beautiful New Zealand, land of beaches and mountains, where long walks provide the perfect conditions for dreaming up plots and fickle weather provides the incentive to sit down and actually write the darn things. After a career in health, justice and social research, her passion is for stories set against a backdrop of social revolution. Her heroines are ordinary women, who meet the challenges thrown at them with determination, ingenuity, courage, and humour.

Reviews

[Larry · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fun story, with interesting characters, both protagonist and antagonist, with wonderful supporting characters as well. The plot is straightforward, and the premise is finding out why the orphanage building was being sold out from under them with only two days notice. The answers were unfortunately not surprising. However the ending was quite similar to the famous, "A Christmas Carol" story. I highly recommend this novella.

[Gaenolee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute, but not a series I need to read.

[Vicki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice short novela, but needs a proofreader.

[Dawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book - onto the next in the series #6.