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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Oct 2020
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Cozy
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 240
In this new installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, a dreary Christmas leads to hidden treasure and new friendships\r\n\r\nIt\'s almost Christmas in the small English village of Finchand everyone is sick. Though many of the villagers regretfully decline their invitations to Emma Harris\'s annual Christmas bash, Lori Shepherd has no intention of missing it. When the winter weather takes a turn for the worse, it\'s agreed that none of the guests will leave until morning. There\'s general merriment as the Christmas party becomes a pajama partyuntil a car appears in the winding driveway and promptly slides off the slick pavement and into a ditch. \r\n\r\nMatilda \"Tilly\" Trouta lost and scatterbrained, middle-aged womanis mercifully unhurt and invited to stay the night. While she catches her breath, Emma asks her other guests if they would like a tour of the Manorincluding an odd room that puzzles her. Several guests put forth guesses as to its purpose, but it\'s Tilly who correctly identifies the room as a chapel. Placing a palm on one of the ornately-carved panels, Tilly finds a hidden compartment concealing a pile of glittering treasureincluding an exquisitely decorated heart made of solid gold. Where did it come from, and why does it look so different from everything else in the chapel? Why didn\'t Emma even know about this hidden compartment in her own home until nowand how did Tilly?\r\n\r\nWith Aunt Dimity\'s otherworldly help and Tilly\'s bewildering store of knowledge, Lori and friends set out to unravel the mystery behind the heart of gold. And, against all oddsand Christmas finally comes to Finch!