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However, just because many of the others are quite short doesn't mean that they fail as stories, just that they tend to focus on a relatively small element of the 'how could that have happened? Christmas is just around the corner, but DON’T PANIC: we’re here to provide you with the ultimate festive gifting inspiration, and remind you that books are certainly the easiest presents to wrap…! Paramedics from the London Ambulance Service and London’s Air Ambulance provided emergency first aid to the woman, but she died at the scene. Since our earliest beginnings, every documented society has gathered to perform elaborate rites and ceremonies - from mass worship to body modification - yet ritual poses a deep paradox: why do we give the utmost importance to otherwise pointless activities? He presents a powerful new perspective on the deep psychological mechanisms behind birthday parties, royal coronations, fire-walking and terrifying rites of passage.
It was full of short stories, all based around Christmas and the blurb made it sound gruesome, cold blooded and scary. Innocent people are being killed via poison that has been injected into various items they picked up at their local supermarket. Across the world, and throughout time, there have been people who have risen to the challenge of leading others.The Trinity Cat by Ellis Peters- a clever story in which elderly Miss Patience has been murdered and the rectory cat intent on ferreting out his Christmas present points the paw at the guilty party. If they advertised the book as a ‘less-scary-than-goosebumps’ book, they could have had themselves a great short story collection with some nice, slightly dark Christmas stories, but that’s not what I was after, unfortunately.
Our investigation continues and a team of detectives are working at pace to establish what happened that resulted in a young woman losing her life,” he said.
The Footprint in the Sky by John Dickson Carr- in which Dorothy Dolly Brant is thought to have committed assault on her neighbour in the night during a bout of sleepwalking. All in all, MURDER ON CHRISTMAS EVE provided a terrific mix of mysteries ideally suited for a fireside read next to your Christmas Tree!
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