The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year
Ally Carter
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Behind closed doors [?]
· 142 ratings · 110 pages · Published: 24 Sep 2024
The bridge is out. The phones are down. And the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of a locked room three days before Christmas.
Meet Maggie Chase and Ethan
She’s the new Queen of the Cozy Mystery.
He’s Mr. Big-time Thriller Guy.
She hates his guts.
He thinks her name is Marcie (no matter how many times she’s told him otherwise.)
But when they both accept a cryptic invitation to attend a Christmas house party at the English estate of a reclusive fan, neither is expecting their host to be the most powerful author in the Eleanor Ashley, the Duchess of Death herself.
That night, the weather turns, and the next morning Eleanor is gone.
She vanished from a locked room, and Maggie has to Is Eleanor in danger? Or is it all some kind of test? Is Ethan the competition? Or is he the only person in that snowbound mansion she can trust?
As the snow gets deeper and the stakes get higher, every clue will bring Maggie and Ethan closer to the truth—and each other. Because, this Christmas, these two rivals are going to have to become allies (and maybe more) if they have any hope of saving Eleanor.
Assuming they don’t kill each other first.
Tagged as:
- mystery 18
- christmas 17
- sleuth heroine 17
- contemporary 17
- m-f romance 17
- enemies to lovers 15
- funny 14
- sweet/gentle hero 14
- forced proximity 13
- competent heroine 10
- disabilities & scars 9
- suspense 6
- tortured heroine 5
- bodyguard/protector hero 5
- sunny/happy hero 5
- grumpy & sunshine 4
- hurt/comfort 4
- insta-love 4
- tortured hero 3
- angst 2
- height difference 2
- betrayal 2
- alpha male 2
- shy heroine 1
- famous heroine 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- past abuse 6
- past child neglect 6
- victim blaming 5
- mental trauma 5
- death / grief 4
- misogyny 1
- geography
- united kingdom 11
- england 10
- europe 4
- british isles 2
- Format
- Audiobook
- dual pov 16
- third person pov 13
- male pov 4

