A Christmas Guest (Christmas Novella 3) : A festive tale of mystery, humour and warmth

Mariah Ellison isn't merely disappointed to learn that she won't spend Christmas at home with her married granddaughter: she is furious.Instead, Grandmama is being packed off to a house in the Romney Marshes to stay with her ex-daughter-in-law.Never having got on with Caroline, Mariah much disapproves of her new husband: decades younger than her, Joshua, an actor, is scarcely even respectable.There will be nothing to do, no one to visit, and no doubt the terrible weather will make even taking a walk impossible.It is going to be the worst Christmas of Grandmama's life.As if that weren't enough, another visitor is foisted on the household.Then something shocking and quite unexpected happens.Has a crime been committed? Grandmama is surprised to find herself turning detective - another profession she deplores - and proving extremely good at it.