Cover art for The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year
Published
Pan, January 2025
ISBN
9781035038398
Format
Softcover, 304 pages
Dimensions
19.7cm × 13cm × 1.9cm

The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

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The bridge is shut.

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 Wyatt: She's the new Queen of the Cosy 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 world: 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 wonder: 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, rivals will have to become allies (and maybe more) if they have any hope of saving Eleanor. Assuming they don't kill each other first . . .

Knives Out gets a rom-com twist in The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year a rivals-to-lovers Christmas mystery-romance from New York Times bestselling author Ally Carter.

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