Noël, manoir et espionnage Lady Vespasia pensait passer un Noël reposant avec son nouvel époux Victor Narraway, ancien chef des services spéciaux de Londres. Mais ils acceptent finalement l'invitation de leurs amis les Cavendish et se rendent dans leur imposant manoir, pour les fêtes de fin d'année. Cette invitation n'est pas innocente : Victor est toujours en lien avec les services secrets et les convives semblent cacher de nombreux secrets. L'une d'entre eux, la jeune Iris Watson-Watt, doit lui remettre à cette occasion un mystérieux colis. Ceci n'est pas sans rappeler à Victor une ancienne affaire, non élucidée, qui avait entrainé la mort d'une espionne française. Entre secrets d'état, tentative de meurtre et espionnage, les fêtes de Noël seront pleines de rebondissements ! Traduit de l'anglais par Pascale Haas
Author
Anne Perry (born Juliet Hulme) was an English author of historical detective fiction, best known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk series. In 1954, at the age of fifteen, she was convicted of participating in the murder of her friend's mother. She changed her name to "Anne Perry" after serving a five-year sentence. Her first novel, The Cater Street Hangman, was published under this name in 1979. Her works generally fall into one of several categories of genre fiction, including historical murder mysteries and detective fiction. Many of them feature a number of recurring characters, most importantly Thomas Pitt, who appeared in her first novel, and amnesiac private investigator William Monk, who first appeared in her 1990 novel The Face of a Stranger. As of 2003, she had published 47 novels, and several collections of short stories. Her story "Heroes," which first appeared the 1999 anthology Murder and Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler, won the 2001 Edgar Award for Best Short Story. She was included as an entry in Ben Peek's Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth, a novel exploring the nature of truth in literature. Series contributed to: . Crime Through Time . Perfectly Criminal . Malice Domestic . The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories . Transgressions . The Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories
