Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret: A Whodunit Full of Twists and Turns, A Clever and Cozy Mystery (The Ernest Cunningham Mysteries, 3)

ISBN: 0063412861

Author: Stevenson, Benjamin

Condition: New

Benjamin Stevenson returns with a Christmas addition to his bestselling, deviously good fun (Nita Prose), Ernest Cunningham mysteries. Unwrap all the Christmas staples: presents, family, an impossible murder or two, and a deadly advent calendar of clues. If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe.My names Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. Id hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays. I was wrong.So here I am, backstage at the show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. My suspects are all professional tricksters: masters of the art of misdirection.THE MAGICIANTHE ASSISTANTTHE EXECUTIVETHE HYPNOTISTTHE IDENTICAL TWINTHE COUNSELLORTHE TECHMy clues are even more abstract: A suspect covered in blood, without a memory of how it got there. A murder committed without setting foot inside the room where it happens. And an advent calendar. Because, you know, its Christmas.If I can see through the illusions, I know I can solve it.After all, a good murder is just like a magic trick, isnt it?