The Christmas Murder Game
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3.9 • 29 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
A locked-room Christmas mystery where riddles reveal deadly family secrets… and the only escape is through the truth.
Fans of Agatha Christie and Lucy Foley will savor its locked-room twists, interactive puzzles, and chilling emotional stakes. Play along, uncover the truth, and beware: at Endgame House, the most dangerous gift is buried in the past.
Lily Armitage never wanted to return to Endgame House. The grand estate holds too many painful memories—including the unsolved murder of her mother, twenty-one Christmases ago.
But when a cryptic invitation arrives, Lily can’t ignore it. Her aunt has resurrected the family’s infamous holiday tradition: twelve days of riddles, one each day until Twelfth Night. The prize? The keys to Endgame House—and a promise to reveal her mother’s killer.
Snowed in with her estranged, scheming cousins and a deadly game underway, Lily must confront the ghosts of her past, decipher riddles that cut to the bone, and survive a chilling race for the truth.
Because at Endgame House, everyone has something to hide. And this Christmas, the truth is worth killing for.
Praise for The Christmas Murder Game:
"Curl up by the fire (and lock all the doors) for this Christmas cracker of a book." ―C.S. Green, author of Sleep Tight
"The perfect Christmas read . . . and puzzles galore for both readers and the players of the game." ― W.C. Ryan, author of A House of Ghosts
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It's a snowy Christmas Eve in this fun contemporary British country house mystery from Benedict (The Beauty of Murder as A.K. Benedict), and Lily Armitage, a 33-year-old costume corset maker is heading from her London home to the wilds of Yorkshire and the 17th-century manor known as Endgame House, where she lived as a child. She hasn't set foot in the place since she left it at the age of 12 after her mother's death. She's only returning because her recently deceased aunt and adoptive mother, Liliana Armitage-Feathers, has left a letter for her with the family lawyer in which Liliana begs Lily, as a last request, to participate in the family's traditional Christmas treasure hunt, in which all the Armitage cousins take part. Only this time, the winner will get Endgame House itself, while the other participants will get nothing. Greed-fueled animosity runs high, and it's no surprise when, one by one, the cousins start turning up dead. Puzzle-loving readers will enjoy searching for anagrams of the gifts mentioned in "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and for the titles of 12 of the author's favorite country house mysteries embedded in the text. This isn't for those looking for surprising reveals.
