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Lady Emily Ashton Mysteries #12.5
Amid the Winter's Snow
In Amid the Winter's Snow, an uplifting Christmas story in Tasha Alexander’s acclaimed series, Lady Emily and her husband Colin take on a case that proves the enduring power of love.
Emily and Colin Hargreaves are looking forward to nothing more than spending a relaxing Christmas at their country estate, Anglemore Park, eating mince pies and playing with their sons in the falling snow. Their solitude is interrupted by a knock on the door one night, when the villagers of nearby Dunsford Vale come to them with strange tales of a barghest--a mythical black dog with red eyes and enormous teeth and claws--that has been wreaking havoc on the town.
Never ones to be taken in by local superstitions, Colin and Emily team up to find an explanation behind the bizarre events. When a grieving young woman in town receives a mysterious and beautiful gift after a visit from the barghest, Emily and Colin begin to suspect that the beast is more man than monster. Racing through the candlelit streets of Dunsford Vale and the windswept heaths of Anglemore, the couple must follow the clues and uncover the truth to restore Christmas cheer.
Emily and Colin Hargreaves are looking forward to nothing more than spending a relaxing Christmas at their country estate, Anglemore Park, eating mince pies and playing with their sons in the falling snow. Their solitude is interrupted by a knock on the door one night, when the villagers of nearby Dunsford Vale come to them with strange tales of a barghest--a mythical black dog with red eyes and enormous teeth and claws--that has been wreaking havoc on the town.
Never ones to be taken in by local superstitions, Colin and Emily team up to find an explanation behind the bizarre events. When a grieving young woman in town receives a mysterious and beautiful gift after a visit from the barghest, Emily and Colin begin to suspect that the beast is more man than monster. Racing through the candlelit streets of Dunsford Vale and the windswept heaths of Anglemore, the couple must follow the clues and uncover the truth to restore Christmas cheer.
59 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2018
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Tasha Alexander
32 books2,591 followersThe daughter of two philosophy professors, I grew up surrounded by books. I was convinced from an early age that I was born in the wrong century and spent much of my childhood under the dining room table pretending it was a covered wagon. Even there, I was never without a book in hand and loved reading and history more than anything. I studied English Literature and Medieval History at the University of Notre Dame. Writing is a natural offshoot of reading, and my first novel, And Only to Deceive, was published in 2005. I'm the author of the long-running Lady Emily Series as well as the novel Elizabeth: The Golden Age. One of the best parts of being an author is seeing your books translated, and I'm currently in love with the Japanese editions of the Emily books.
I played nomad for a long time, living in Indiana, Amsterdam, London, Wyoming, Vermont, Connecticut, and Tennessee before settling down. My husband, the brilliant British novelist Andrew Grant (I may be biased but that doesn't mean I'm wrong) and I live in southeastern Wyoming. I still don't have a covered wagon, but a log house goes a long way toward fulfilling my pioneer fantasies. Andrew makes sure I get my English characters right, and I make sure his American ones sound American.
I played nomad for a long time, living in Indiana, Amsterdam, London, Wyoming, Vermont, Connecticut, and Tennessee before settling down. My husband, the brilliant British novelist Andrew Grant (I may be biased but that doesn't mean I'm wrong) and I live in southeastern Wyoming. I still don't have a covered wagon, but a log house goes a long way toward fulfilling my pioneer fantasies. Andrew makes sure I get my English characters right, and I make sure his American ones sound American.
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December 11, 2018
This was an excellent novella on the Lady Emily series. It was perfect for Christmas . A howling noise and flashes of a demon dog is seen in their small village Colin and Emily are called out to discover if their village is under attack by an urban legend, or on with two legs. Heartwarming ending. Great story for the Christmas time, forgiveness, and new beginnings. 4 stars. Wish it were a bit longer, so we could see how the couple made out, in the future.
August 25, 2025
Honestly, not a hugely mysterious mystery -- but still a nice portrait of Emily and Colin and family at Christmas at their country estate. All of these stories have such a vivid sense of place and this one is no different -- centering on village life and the countryside, wrapped up in local folklore and people, respectful of the tenants and their beliefs.
September 8, 2023
A lovely little story set at Christmas time.
January 22, 2025
Very good, wish it had snowed where I am so it could fit the weather of this book more. Very touching conclusion that definitely did not make my eyes water
January 6, 2020
I've thoroughly enjoyed all the Tasha Alexander mysteries I've read (5 or 6) until this one.
I think she must've written this during a boring afternoon.
She borrows the moors, the scared villagers, the man hiding on the moors, and the supernatural dog from Hound of the Baskervilles; only the end is so obvious that this story becomes a painfully bad attempt at pastiche.
She also forgets that Emily's ward Tom is supposedly 6 months older than her twins and has all three boys (supposedly only 4 1/2 years old in this story) speak as if they're at least 12. One of them is apparently so gifted that he is able to read and discuss myths and legends on about the same level as a bright 15-year-old.
And..... Alexander is guilty of (gasp!) misusing a line from Hamlet ("to the manner born") in a way that shows she's unfamiliar with the plot.
So, a bad pastiche, severe lack of understanding of child development, forgetting her own plot details, and revealing a lack of knowledge of the Bard.... all in one short story.
It's not worth it; choose one of Alexander's full-length books instead.
I think she must've written this during a boring afternoon.
She borrows the moors, the scared villagers, the man hiding on the moors, and the supernatural dog from Hound of the Baskervilles; only the end is so obvious that this story becomes a painfully bad attempt at pastiche.
She also forgets that Emily's ward Tom is supposedly 6 months older than her twins and has all three boys (supposedly only 4 1/2 years old in this story) speak as if they're at least 12. One of them is apparently so gifted that he is able to read and discuss myths and legends on about the same level as a bright 15-year-old.
And..... Alexander is guilty of (gasp!) misusing a line from Hamlet ("to the manner born") in a way that shows she's unfamiliar with the plot.
So, a bad pastiche, severe lack of understanding of child development, forgetting her own plot details, and revealing a lack of knowledge of the Bard.... all in one short story.
It's not worth it; choose one of Alexander's full-length books instead.
December 14, 2022
This is the my 3rd novella in Lady Emily series.
I really love Lady Emily as character and loved each book I read in the series except novellas.
This novella as the previous was written for Christmas time, but not only do they contain no Christmas atmosphere, but while the first novella was totally boring and repetitive, this and the previous one are a little bit creepy, they have dark atmosphere.
When I start reading something I want to finish it, but I wasted time reading something that instead of making my days happier filled them with something dark.
If I were a lover of the dark genre I would read gothic novels and gothic novellas (which I hate), I love cozy mysteries for their cheerful and light atmosphere.
To conclude I say that I love the Lady Emily series in the novels, but the stories are really disappointing to me and above all I hate the dark stories. Yes there was a happy ending but the whole story was like a movie I didn't want to see.
I really love Lady Emily as character and loved each book I read in the series except novellas.
This novella as the previous was written for Christmas time, but not only do they contain no Christmas atmosphere, but while the first novella was totally boring and repetitive, this and the previous one are a little bit creepy, they have dark atmosphere.
When I start reading something I want to finish it, but I wasted time reading something that instead of making my days happier filled them with something dark.
If I were a lover of the dark genre I would read gothic novels and gothic novellas (which I hate), I love cozy mysteries for their cheerful and light atmosphere.
To conclude I say that I love the Lady Emily series in the novels, but the stories are really disappointing to me and above all I hate the dark stories. Yes there was a happy ending but the whole story was like a movie I didn't want to see.
October 28, 2018
This is a lovely holiday novella in the Lady Emily mystery series. Lady Emily, Colin, and their three five-year old boys are at Colin's estate in Derbyshire in the lead-up to the holidays. Their peace is interrupted when some of the villagers come to their estate to ask for help. Several residents claim to have seen a barghest, a demonic dog-like beast. Naturally Colin and Lady Emily quickly get involved in trying to find whatever is scaring the villagers (and ripping sheep apart).
I thoroughly enjoyed this story while waiting for the next full-length Lady Emily mystery. I'm not sure people who haven't read the series will enjoy it quite as much as me, but it is a fun read, and an A for me, so five stars here.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story while waiting for the next full-length Lady Emily mystery. I'm not sure people who haven't read the series will enjoy it quite as much as me, but it is a fun read, and an A for me, so five stars here.
October 19, 2018
This was an enjoyable interlude in the series in which we find Emily and Colin spending Christmas at Colin's Anglemore Park estate with their three boys. Their idyllic holiday is interrupted when villagers come to the door claiming a mythical beast, said to stalk the area, has been sighted. Of course Colin and Emily must solve the mystery. I really enjoyed this look at the growing boys. An uplifting story!
February 6, 2019
Two and a half stars. This is no cozy Christmas tale, if that is what you seek. This is more suited to Halloween, or All Hallows Eve. Or some other European pagan folk tale.
Not worth summarizing. Happy ending of sorts, but other than that, meh. A better title for this novella—which means a very SHORT book—would have been Much Ado About Nothing.
Not worth summarizing. Happy ending of sorts, but other than that, meh. A better title for this novella—which means a very SHORT book—would have been Much Ado About Nothing.
February 8, 2020
I only got part of a book where is the rest of it? I would not recommend this book to anyone I do believe I payed for a whole book.
I only got part of a book. Where is the rest of the book? I would not recommend this book to anyone
I only got part of a book. Where is the rest of the book? I would not recommend this book to anyone
November 27, 2018
*Special Content only on my blog, Strange and Random Happenstance during Alexander Autumn (October-November 2018)
Colin has returned to Anglemore Park to spend the holidays with his family and eat his weight in mince pies. Of course nothing in Colin and Emily's life ever goes to plan, as is evidenced by the torch wielding villagers that have arrived at their door. Thankfully they are not about to be plunged into a Gothic drama as their butler Davis worried, because they are without pitchforks and have come for their liege's help. A dozen of the residents of Dunsford Vale, one of Anglemore Park's estate villages, are awkwardly seated in the cinnamon drawing room when they reveal that their problem is the arrival of a beast born out of local legend. Dunsford Vale is being plagued by a barghest. Emily almost laughs at the suggestion of the mythical monstrous black dog that folklore says heralds death and can be warded off with coffin nails. Seeing as she's only lived in Derbyshire for eight years her stance on the barghest is expected by the locals. What Emily doesn't expect is for Colin to believe them! He's an agent of the crown, a sensible man who has thrown all sense out the window. Could Colin be appeasing the villagers while planning on doing a proper investigation under the guise of a barghest hunt? As Emily and Colin dig deeper into the sightings, the missing food, the dead sheep, one person in the village seems more troubled by the beast than any other, the unfortunate Miss Fletcher. What could the beast have to do with Miss Fletcher? And can they solve the riddle of the barghest before Christmas so that things can get back to normal?
The second Davis asked if Emily and Colin were about to be plunged into a Gothic drama my first reaction was to snort with laughter, my second was to hope it was true. AND IT WAS! Not the ghostly Gothic in a foreign land, but the monstrous Gothic complete with a fainting heroine! It was Lady Emily does The Hound of the Baskervilles! Seeing as I revel in anything the slightest bit Gothic and I had literally just re-read The Hound of the Baskervilles for book club this mash-up was right up my alley! I can't believe I'd never heard of a barghest before as it fits neatly under the black spectral dog haunting that covers everything from the grim, made famous in my mind by Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, to the ghostly huntsman and his hounds who inspired Arthur Conan Doyle, to Yeth Hounds, a possibility that Emily's most astute son points out when no one has died from seeing the barghest. While I love all Emily's adventures I have become really invested in these Christmas tales. Tasha seems to free herself of all constraints and it's go big or go home time. The more absurd, the more fantastical the idea, the more humor, the more heart, the more holiday she is able to infuse it with. Missing jewels and Sebastian the gentleman thief baiting Emily's mother, a true ghost story, and now a spectral hound!?! When are these tales going to be collected in one volume that I can place on my bookshelf? I seriously need to know because these tales are the perfect concentration of everything I love most about Tasha's writing.
Though the true test of Tasha's writing is that she is able to create these characters we never want to let go. Every time I start one of her stories I hope my favorites will appear. I know it doesn't make sense to have Jeremy, Cecile, Margaret, Ivy, Davis, Nanny, the boys, and everyone else ever featured in every story, but that doesn't mean I don't hope for the revolving cast of characters to all appear at once. This attention to character is what makes Amid the Winter's Snow standout for me. The best stories, the best mysteries, in my mind are the ones where you could just hang out with the characters forever. Who cares if the culprit is caught so long as you are entertained by the inhabitants of the pages. This is why my most favorite British TV show of all time is Midsomer Murders. Yes, it strains credulity that they still have any population after all the murders and murderers in their midst. But all these quaintly named little towns are peopled with the most eccentric folks. That is how I felt about Dunsford Vale! This was like a turn of the century Badger's Drift haunted by a hound! The little old lady who cursed the hound away, the young girl who lost her fiance but still found solace in baking for the town, the sheep farmer who was willing to admit his sheep might have just wandered away instead of falling victim to a barghest, the shopkeeper who is viewed as an outsider because he moved to town at three months old. I felt intrigued and invested in each and every one of these characters. Of course now I'm going to want them to come back... damn, it's a double-edged sword falling in love with Tasha's characters...
Colin has returned to Anglemore Park to spend the holidays with his family and eat his weight in mince pies. Of course nothing in Colin and Emily's life ever goes to plan, as is evidenced by the torch wielding villagers that have arrived at their door. Thankfully they are not about to be plunged into a Gothic drama as their butler Davis worried, because they are without pitchforks and have come for their liege's help. A dozen of the residents of Dunsford Vale, one of Anglemore Park's estate villages, are awkwardly seated in the cinnamon drawing room when they reveal that their problem is the arrival of a beast born out of local legend. Dunsford Vale is being plagued by a barghest. Emily almost laughs at the suggestion of the mythical monstrous black dog that folklore says heralds death and can be warded off with coffin nails. Seeing as she's only lived in Derbyshire for eight years her stance on the barghest is expected by the locals. What Emily doesn't expect is for Colin to believe them! He's an agent of the crown, a sensible man who has thrown all sense out the window. Could Colin be appeasing the villagers while planning on doing a proper investigation under the guise of a barghest hunt? As Emily and Colin dig deeper into the sightings, the missing food, the dead sheep, one person in the village seems more troubled by the beast than any other, the unfortunate Miss Fletcher. What could the beast have to do with Miss Fletcher? And can they solve the riddle of the barghest before Christmas so that things can get back to normal?
The second Davis asked if Emily and Colin were about to be plunged into a Gothic drama my first reaction was to snort with laughter, my second was to hope it was true. AND IT WAS! Not the ghostly Gothic in a foreign land, but the monstrous Gothic complete with a fainting heroine! It was Lady Emily does The Hound of the Baskervilles! Seeing as I revel in anything the slightest bit Gothic and I had literally just re-read The Hound of the Baskervilles for book club this mash-up was right up my alley! I can't believe I'd never heard of a barghest before as it fits neatly under the black spectral dog haunting that covers everything from the grim, made famous in my mind by Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, to the ghostly huntsman and his hounds who inspired Arthur Conan Doyle, to Yeth Hounds, a possibility that Emily's most astute son points out when no one has died from seeing the barghest. While I love all Emily's adventures I have become really invested in these Christmas tales. Tasha seems to free herself of all constraints and it's go big or go home time. The more absurd, the more fantastical the idea, the more humor, the more heart, the more holiday she is able to infuse it with. Missing jewels and Sebastian the gentleman thief baiting Emily's mother, a true ghost story, and now a spectral hound!?! When are these tales going to be collected in one volume that I can place on my bookshelf? I seriously need to know because these tales are the perfect concentration of everything I love most about Tasha's writing.
Though the true test of Tasha's writing is that she is able to create these characters we never want to let go. Every time I start one of her stories I hope my favorites will appear. I know it doesn't make sense to have Jeremy, Cecile, Margaret, Ivy, Davis, Nanny, the boys, and everyone else ever featured in every story, but that doesn't mean I don't hope for the revolving cast of characters to all appear at once. This attention to character is what makes Amid the Winter's Snow standout for me. The best stories, the best mysteries, in my mind are the ones where you could just hang out with the characters forever. Who cares if the culprit is caught so long as you are entertained by the inhabitants of the pages. This is why my most favorite British TV show of all time is Midsomer Murders. Yes, it strains credulity that they still have any population after all the murders and murderers in their midst. But all these quaintly named little towns are peopled with the most eccentric folks. That is how I felt about Dunsford Vale! This was like a turn of the century Badger's Drift haunted by a hound! The little old lady who cursed the hound away, the young girl who lost her fiance but still found solace in baking for the town, the sheep farmer who was willing to admit his sheep might have just wandered away instead of falling victim to a barghest, the shopkeeper who is viewed as an outsider because he moved to town at three months old. I felt intrigued and invested in each and every one of these characters. Of course now I'm going to want them to come back... damn, it's a double-edged sword falling in love with Tasha's characters...
December 16, 2024
Amid the Winter’s Snow, Lady Emily Mystery,12.5, by Tasha Alexander. A short story.
This is the First Lady Emily Ashton Mysteries Series Lynn and I have read. A Christmas theme seemed appropriate and has the advantages of being a short story. Set in the north of England, in 1900, among the “manor born,” the story delves into the stiff-upper lip side of English aristocracy and obligations of the lord to his tenants with an idealism that reminds me of the more pleasant moments of life in the Current Middle Ages of The Society for Creative Anachronism. Definitely Victorian; definitely very prim and proper stuff. And, the tone took us some time to shift reading style to accept the deference and stylized formality of speech endemic to idealized tone of the age, when the best people were imagined as living their roles. The audio version in the US Library of Congress BARD system is an hour and forty-four minutes long. Of that, I spent the first hour feeling awkward as my sensibilities slowly adapted to the role playing of Lord Colin, Lady Emily, their household staff, their tenants, and village folk, all of whom live on the vast estate! And once again, entitlement and privilege, along with manorial obligation by the lord and lady are on steroids. It was a shock to my twenty-first-century mind. I did adapt enough to begin to enjoy the final 43-minutes of the short story.
It is worth noting. This story is short, seasonal, and a decent introduction to a new style of storytelling for me. Lynn says we should listen to one of her novels or novellas; and, I do have the first two story queued up in my Waiting List. The great thing about beginning with a short story to get the feel of a new series and its set of characters is it does not require great expectations or commitments to delve in. So, in the spirit of Christmas, I can recommend this as a good way for other readers to test their abilities to adapt to the Victorian pretentiousness of the manor, their villages, yes plural, and the local tenets. And, the series does have its following.
The story is about a spirit dog who seems to be haunting the estate. This is a local creature out of rural folklore. It’s appearance for10s death for any who see it, so beware. Will people begin to drop dead, or is there something else behind the mystery? Ah, “spoilers” ;)
All in all, if you have an hour and 44 minutes to read it aloud or less for a quiet reading, it passes quickly. For me, a solid **** Four-Stars for a good dose of the ever-present and very dry British wit.
This is the First Lady Emily Ashton Mysteries Series Lynn and I have read. A Christmas theme seemed appropriate and has the advantages of being a short story. Set in the north of England, in 1900, among the “manor born,” the story delves into the stiff-upper lip side of English aristocracy and obligations of the lord to his tenants with an idealism that reminds me of the more pleasant moments of life in the Current Middle Ages of The Society for Creative Anachronism. Definitely Victorian; definitely very prim and proper stuff. And, the tone took us some time to shift reading style to accept the deference and stylized formality of speech endemic to idealized tone of the age, when the best people were imagined as living their roles. The audio version in the US Library of Congress BARD system is an hour and forty-four minutes long. Of that, I spent the first hour feeling awkward as my sensibilities slowly adapted to the role playing of Lord Colin, Lady Emily, their household staff, their tenants, and village folk, all of whom live on the vast estate! And once again, entitlement and privilege, along with manorial obligation by the lord and lady are on steroids. It was a shock to my twenty-first-century mind. I did adapt enough to begin to enjoy the final 43-minutes of the short story.
It is worth noting. This story is short, seasonal, and a decent introduction to a new style of storytelling for me. Lynn says we should listen to one of her novels or novellas; and, I do have the first two story queued up in my Waiting List. The great thing about beginning with a short story to get the feel of a new series and its set of characters is it does not require great expectations or commitments to delve in. So, in the spirit of Christmas, I can recommend this as a good way for other readers to test their abilities to adapt to the Victorian pretentiousness of the manor, their villages, yes plural, and the local tenets. And, the series does have its following.
The story is about a spirit dog who seems to be haunting the estate. This is a local creature out of rural folklore. It’s appearance for10s death for any who see it, so beware. Will people begin to drop dead, or is there something else behind the mystery? Ah, “spoilers” ;)
All in all, if you have an hour and 44 minutes to read it aloud or less for a quiet reading, it passes quickly. For me, a solid **** Four-Stars for a good dose of the ever-present and very dry British wit.
October 22, 2018
Equal Parts Creepy and Delightful
As always, Ms. Alexander has taught me something with her writing. I won’t spoil the story but it was fascinating to learn about an English legend and walk alongside Colin and Emily as they determined whether the creature of legend was real or imagined. I honestly wasn’t sure what they were going to find and felt a tad creeped out on a couple of occasions in the story. This story contains a cast of wonderful characters, a beautiful village setting and the typical banter between Colin and Emily that I’ve come to love so dearly. They certainly are not the norm when it comes to couples in 1900 and for that, they are all the better. The story also brings us some insight into the couple’s three charming children, which was a delightful addition. The Lady Emily short stories are a great way to tide oneself over between the longer novels. And anything involving Christmas always makes me happy.
As always, Ms. Alexander has taught me something with her writing. I won’t spoil the story but it was fascinating to learn about an English legend and walk alongside Colin and Emily as they determined whether the creature of legend was real or imagined. I honestly wasn’t sure what they were going to find and felt a tad creeped out on a couple of occasions in the story. This story contains a cast of wonderful characters, a beautiful village setting and the typical banter between Colin and Emily that I’ve come to love so dearly. They certainly are not the norm when it comes to couples in 1900 and for that, they are all the better. The story also brings us some insight into the couple’s three charming children, which was a delightful addition. The Lady Emily short stories are a great way to tide oneself over between the longer novels. And anything involving Christmas always makes me happy.
April 6, 2019
Great Read!!
I’ve read every book in the series. I love the author and the characters. If you enjoy historically accurate and detailed mysteries, you will enjoy this novel. I have a degree in history, so it’s hard for me to read historical novels that have incorrect or incomplete historical facts in the story. If an author is writing a novel set in a historical era and/or place, then the research must be done to make the story flow without glaring anachronistic errors in the middle of the novel. Looking up a word in the dictionary is ok, but to find incorrect information or modern slang in a historical novel will not only make me upset, it will cause me to put the book down unfinished and a review unflattering to the book might be placed on Amazon. It’s a peeve of mine. Like they say, if you cannot do it right, don’t do it at all. Sorry for the rant.
I’ve read every book in the series. I love the author and the characters. If you enjoy historically accurate and detailed mysteries, you will enjoy this novel. I have a degree in history, so it’s hard for me to read historical novels that have incorrect or incomplete historical facts in the story. If an author is writing a novel set in a historical era and/or place, then the research must be done to make the story flow without glaring anachronistic errors in the middle of the novel. Looking up a word in the dictionary is ok, but to find incorrect information or modern slang in a historical novel will not only make me upset, it will cause me to put the book down unfinished and a review unflattering to the book might be placed on Amazon. It’s a peeve of mine. Like they say, if you cannot do it right, don’t do it at all. Sorry for the rant.
December 28, 2018
Lady Emily and her husband, Collin, are happily ensconced in their country home for the Christmas holidays, but when their tenants complain that the Barghest has started to terrorize the village - stealing food and scaring children - their peaceful Christmas is interrupted. They must discover what or who is causing all the turmoil, and what they find out may just be a surprise to everyone.
Another fun Lady Emily mystery, this time it is a Christmas novella, but still a great read.
Another fun Lady Emily mystery, this time it is a Christmas novella, but still a great read.
March 21, 2019
"Missing" Husband
This is the first book I've read by Tasha Alexander and I enjoyed it very much. She fills out her characters nicely, but leaves you to draw your own conclusions about each one. Her feminine insight is noticeable but not too daunting. I love that Lady Emily is narrator and has a good sense humor. Looking forward to reading more of this author.
This is the first book I've read by Tasha Alexander and I enjoyed it very much. She fills out her characters nicely, but leaves you to draw your own conclusions about each one. Her feminine insight is noticeable but not too daunting. I love that Lady Emily is narrator and has a good sense humor. Looking forward to reading more of this author.
March 31, 2021
Wonderful reading 📚
Due to eye issues Alexa reads to me, a will written romantic novella. The characters are interesting and will developed. The story line is about relationships and love 💘. I would recommend this novella to readers of romance and looking for a quick read. Enjoy reading 🔰2021 ☺
Due to eye issues Alexa reads to me, a will written romantic novella. The characters are interesting and will developed. The story line is about relationships and love 💘. I would recommend this novella to readers of romance and looking for a quick read. Enjoy reading 🔰2021 ☺
April 23, 2019
A good. Actually .it's of a novella.
The characters were delightful. The story is well told and compact. I read this book in one sitting. I plan on reading more of the authors writing.
The characters were delightful. The story is well told and compact. I read this book in one sitting. I plan on reading more of the authors writing.
June 20, 2019
Short and Sweet!
A short Lady Emily mystery, hinting of Holmes and Watson hunting a certain hound but with an albeit sweeter end. The irony of shivering in the warm Spring sun while reading a winter-set mystery wasn't lost on me either.
A short Lady Emily mystery, hinting of Holmes and Watson hunting a certain hound but with an albeit sweeter end. The irony of shivering in the warm Spring sun while reading a winter-set mystery wasn't lost on me either.
October 21, 2019
A legendary mythical creature is said to be roaming the hills. The villagers are scared. They come t Colin to have him investigate it. Colin and Lady Emily also ick up clues from a young lady ho has lost her beau to war and father from illness. Read and see what they discover.
December 26, 2020
Lady Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves, are at their country house enjoying their peace and quiet with their sons when the townspeople report sightings of a legendary monster. They solve the mystery and prove that it is nothing supernatural.
December 16, 2025
A short story in the Lady Emily series ... a fearsome beast seems to be terrorizing the local village at Christmas and it's up to Colin and Emily to figure out what really is going on in the frightened village. Ultimately, an uplifting Christmas time story.
November 21, 2018
I like all the Lady Emily novels, this was charming but a little thin.
November 30, 2018
Love, love the local lore/history that goes with each of her stories . . . long or short!
December 25, 2018
Christmas mystery
What a lovely short Christmas mystery for fans of the Lady Emily series. Meet new characters as the source of scary events is revealed.
What a lovely short Christmas mystery for fans of the Lady Emily series. Meet new characters as the source of scary events is revealed.
December 26, 2018
3.5 stars
December 26, 2018
Love sees few flaws!
A short but meaningful ode to love and a fitting Christmas Tale. Love overcomes all obstacles,at least in fiction if not always in fact.q
A short but meaningful ode to love and a fitting Christmas Tale. Love overcomes all obstacles,at least in fiction if not always in fact.q
January 3, 2019
Want to read more Lady Emily
March 13, 2019
A pleasant short story. It was not a gripping mystery, just a light read with the usual cast of characters that I enjoy.
May 7, 2019
Spelling bounding
I always enjoy reading lady Emily mysteries. I didn't figure it out until it was revealed.
Looking forward to !pre Lady Emily mysteries.
I always enjoy reading lady Emily mysteries. I didn't figure it out until it was revealed.
Looking forward to !pre Lady Emily mysteries.
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