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Title: Christmas Jury Style
Review: Insp. Jury gets a Christmas holiday and intends to spend it with his only relative in Newcastle. He meets a strange woman in a cementery of the village old Washington. The woman fascinates him, but when he returns she has been murdered. Jury is half in love with the strange lady who left so little of herself to be found.Martha Grimes's JERUSALEM INN is the most complex of her stories so far in the series. Christmas is a side issure until a child insists the doll is her's by day though it can be the baby Jesus by night.Melrose Plant is a guest of a book critic who has an odd assortment of guests for the holidays when a snow storm hits that leaves them stranded in the classic manor house. Plant escapes to the local pub where he meets up with Jury and they both wonder why the other is in the area.A Christmas mystery with a different twist. Excellent read at any time.Nash Black, author of SANDPRINTS OF DEATH.
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