TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perry,Anne
TI  - A Christmas beginning: a novel 
SN  - 9780345485823 (acidfree paper)
AV  - PR6066.E693 C465 2007
U1  - 823/.914 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Ballantine Books
KW  - Murder
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Aristocracy (Social class)
KW  - Anglesey (Wales)
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Victoria, 1837-1901
KW  - Christmas stories
KW  - Mystery fiction
KW  - gsafd
N2  - "Superintendent Runcorn of Scotland Yard is spending Christmas on the wild and beautiful island of Anglesey off the north coast of Wales. On one of his solitary strolls, the lonely bachelor stumbles upon a lifeless body in the village churchyard. The unfortunate victim is quickly identified as Olivia Costain, the local vicar's younger sister." "In life, Olivia had been a free spirit, full of charm and grace. For Runcorn, she is a haunting reminder of Melisande Ewart, the one woman he's never been able to forget. Everyone on Anglesey is quick to insist that only a stranger to the island could have committed the heinous crime. But the evidence proves otherwise, and the unpopular work of discovering who among Olivia's friends and neighbors - and numerous eligible suitors - is a ruthless killer falls to Runcorn."; "A plebeian outsider in the drawing rooms of the snobbish local gentry, Runcorn never dreams that the key that will unlock the secrets of Olivia's life and death may also, miraculously, open the door to a new future for himself."--BOOK JACKET; General Adult.  Spending his Christmas holidays on the remote island of Anglesey, off the north coast of Wales, a lonely Superintendent Runcorn is called in to investigate when the sister of the local vicar is found murdered and draped over a gravestone in her brothers churchyard, joining forces with the elegant Melisande to find the killer. 75,000 first printing
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