- Title:
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The Ghost of Christmas Past
- Series:
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Molly Murphy #17
- Written by:
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Rhys Bowen
- Read by:
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Nicola Barber
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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7 hours 1 minutes
- Published:
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October 01 2019
- Available Date:
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October 01 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655625704
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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National bestselling author
Agatha Award–winning author
Can detective Molly Murphy solve the case of a missing girl when someone shows up ten years later on Christmas Eve claiming to be her?
Semi-retired private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is suffering from depression after a miscarriage following her adventure in San Francisco during the earthquake of 1906. She and her husband, Daniel, are invited for Christmas at a mansion on the Hudson, and they gratefully accept, expecting a peaceful and relaxing holiday season. Not long after they arrive, however, they start to feel the tension in the house's atmosphere. Then they learn that the host couple's young daughter wandered out into the snow ten years ago and was never seen again.
Molly can identify with the mother's pain at never knowing what happened to her child and wants to help, but there is so little to go on. No ransom note. No body ever found. But Molly slowly begins to suspect that the occupants of the house know more than they are letting on. Then, on Christmas Eve, there is a knock at the door and a young girl stands there. 'I'm Charlotte,' she says. 'I've come home.'
'Well-drawn characters and setting, strong women, and crisp details of life in the early 1900s add to this historical mystery.'
Booklist
'A difficult case that evokes old-time Christmas traditions and a solution that will warm the heart.'
Kirkus Reviews