12 Ways To Kill Your Family At Christmas by Natasha Bache

 

About the Book

All Olivia wanted was one last miserable Christmas with her husband’s awful family before moving to Australia. She didn’t expect a murder.

Now the snow has cut them off and she’s stuck in a stately country house, with her increasingly deranged relatives and the rising suspicion that someone is picking them off one by one.

As the bodies pile up and the festive façade starts to crack, Olivia must survive the season, or, at the very least, get through lunch without anyone else choking on a sprout.

Sharp, smart and deliciously twisted, this is Christmas with all the trimmings: cold cuts, warm lies and at least one suspicious pudding.

 

What I thought 

I loved this book from the very first pages. It's got to be up there with the very best of the books I've read this year, keeping me thoroughly entertained and highly amused. The wonderful dry wit is just brilliant and some of the situations...well, normally you'd say 'you couldn't make it up' but obviously Ms Bache has made it up, and what a fabulous job she's made of it too.

As the deaths mount up, it keeps you constantly guessing. Have they been murdered? Some obviously have but others, maybe or maybe just very unfortunate accidents, who knows. But more to the point, if they are all murders then who could it be? As the family rapidly begins to dwindle, fingers start to point. Nobody knows who'll be next, which leaves the characters getting ever more nervous and constantly looking over their shoulders.

There isn't much more to say, I'm not going to spoil it by going into the storyline but suffice to say it has it all, lots of humour, mystery, tension, lies, resentment, bitterness, it's all there. A marvellous recipe for a Christmas who-dunnit, the icing on the Christmas cake!

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💙 Happy Reading 💙

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With thanks to One More Chapter for an advance review copy of the book via Netgalley.

The book is out today 9 October, in e-book, audio and paperback, and is available from all bookstores including Amazon.