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Twelve Drummers Drumming: A Mystery Hardcover

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Book 1 of 3 in the Father Christmas Mystery Series

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Slow to start, but found its stride...

January 27, 2018

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I purchased Twelve Drummers Drumming by C.C. Benison because I thought it had a Christmas theme. It turns out that the only thing Christmassy in this novel is the main character, Father Tom Christmas, as well as the title, which comes from a Christmas carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas. This novel was a little slow going at the beginning, but I found that it picked up midway through and was a good read. Although twelve is in the title, this is actually the first mystery in Benison’s Tom Christmas series.

Tom Christmas recently relocated to Thornford Regis, where he serves as the vicar at St. Nicholas Church. His wife was murdered two years ago (still unsolved) and he believes that moving from Bristol to a country town will provide a safer environment for his 9 year old daughter, Miranda. His wife’s sister and her husband live in Thornford, so there will also be family support for Miranda. Christmas is able to take the position of priest at St. Nicholas because of the mysterious disappearance of the former priest. But Christmas hasn’t been in Thornford too long when a young girl is found murdered, and stuffed in a Japanese drum that is part of a May Fare Celebration. There are many possible suspects and Christmas finds himself in the middle of the investigation. And it is just possible that he will discover the identity of the murderer before the bumbling investigators that have been assigned to the case.

I really enjoyed Benison’s writing style and reading about small town English life was fun. Thornford has just as many strange and entertaining characters as city life, and often the same problems. Also, there are characters who seek out a small town because they have secrets to hide. I also liked the character, Tom Christmas, and Benison has already started a series of books using the country vicar. I will definitely try to read more of them.

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lindapanzo

decent start to a cozy mystery series

November 2, 2013

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I thought this first in a new cozy series would be a Christmas mystery. It isn't. It features a vicar in a British village. The Christmas-sounding title is due to the fact that the vicar's name is Tom Christmas, not to mention the title is taken from the song, The Twelve Days of Christmas.

Anyway, it's not bad. It's got some interesting characters. Tom Christmas, the vicar who is a former professional magician who moves to the village, along with his 9-year old daughter, after his wife was murdered. Christmas tries to solve several village crimes at one time, making the plot somewhat interesting.

The book does go on and on, though. I think better editing would've been helpful. Perhaps a quarter of the book could've been cut.

Nonetheless, I liked it well enough to continue with the series.

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Marivale

An excellent and uncommon cozy mystery

December 7, 2014

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This is a little more hard-edged than the usual cozy mystery. The characters are more complex and the story really kept my interest unti the very end. I was excited to find this was the first in a series so I went to Amazon to pick up the second . Unfortunately, I discovered that all subsequent books in the series cost $12.99. The author has published a number of other books and this is obviously the publisher's price. However, I refuse to pay that much money for an e-book. The publishing industry just doesn't seem to understand that their world has changed with the advent of e-readers. I will wait for the price to come down, or I'll just have to deprive myself of the pleasure of reading any subsequent books in the series. That's too bad for the author, because he's the victim as well as we are . I know he doesn't get that much money out of each book.

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Dianne

Passable Village Who-Done-It

November 18, 2015

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Father Thomas Christmas and his young daughter, Miranda, have moved to a (seemingly) idyllic English village after the murder of his wife. As the reader meets the cast of characters, and there are many, mysteries pop up along the way. First the prior vicar is missing, then another villager is murdered, the virger of the church disappears, and finally a patriarch of the village dies under suspicious circumstances. Thomas is involved as both a priest and as a member of the community. He confesses to himself that he can be a "nosy parker." While this book meets the criteria of a "cozy" mystery, there is a bit more meat to the characters and the story as well. There is no graphic violence or foul language, and while police are involved, it is the amateur sleuth who solves the mysteries. Mostly, the proofreading was adequate except for a number of peculiar instances where words are repeated several times in a row, spelled differently each time; it's as though the writer was experimenting with spellings. The ending pulls the threads of the story together but leaves a big, wide opening for the next installment. I find that a bit of trickery. There are two more Father Christmas books. I may or may not continue....

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Betsy

Vicar' s Ruin

November 26, 2015

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This could have been a good mystery, but instead it turned into a big disappointment. Recently, it seems that mysteries require two things: an amateur detective who is a widower and has a precocious daughter. Tom Christmas is just such a man, and he is also a vicar. He has settled in Thornford Regis with his daughter, Miranda, to get away from the horrors of his wife's murder.

As might be expected, there are some unusual villagers and several murders involved. The book is much too long, and every other page, or so it seems, Tom (as he prefers to be called) dwells upon the circumstances of his wife's death. The reader can only hope that the author doesn't intend to drag out that plot line until "the partridge in a pear tree" makes his appearance.

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