Murder, She Wrote: The Murder of Twelve
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4.5 • 35 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
In the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher takes on an Agatha Christie-style mystery when she finds herself stranded in a hotel during a blizzard with twelve strangers and a killer in their midst....
Still staying at the Hill House hotel while her beloved home is being rebuilt, Jessica Fletcher finds herself sharing the space for a weekend with a dozen members of a wedding party who have gathered there for a rehearsal dinner. The families of the bride and groom can't stand each other but have agreed to put aside years of long-simmering tension to celebrate the nuptials.
Unfortunately, weather forecasters underestimated the severity of a storm that turns into a historic blizzard that dumps nearly five feet of snow on Cabot Cove, leaving everyone stranded.
But the hotel guests have bigger things to worry about than bad weather conditions and potential cold feet, because a murderer has shown up ininvited--one who has vowed to take them down one by one....
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It's winter, and Cabot Cove, Maine, is expecting the blizzard of the century in Land's solid fifth Murder, She Wrote mystery (after 2019's A Time for Murder). Before it hits, writer-sleuth Jessica Fletcher, Sheriff Mort Metzger, and family doctor Seth Hazlitt are called to a crime scene a dead body inside a car. It looks like suicide, but Jessica thinks it's murder. A second call takes them to an abandoned car. Then the storm arrives, and Jessica returns to the hotel she's staying at while her house is being renovated. The hotel is bristling with wedding guests consisting of two warring families with secrets to hide. Thanks to sporadic outside contact with the sheriff, Jessica learns the murder and abandoned car from earlier in the day are connected to the wedding party. The stakes rise as someone starts killing the 12 trapped guests one by one. This is very much a throwback to the classic TV show, and Agatha Christie fans will enjoy the And Then There Were None homage.
Customer Reviews
Not Bad
The story line was good - a page turner. However, the last 2 or 3 books especially have broken continuity with the previous ones in the series. Suddenly, Jessica doesn’t drink. Sometimes she hates coffee, other times that’s all she drinks. We’re back to Sam Booth as mayor, instead of Jim Shevlin. (I believe that’s his name.)Her long time publisher’s name changed - before he was killed off. But the most egregious is that Mort Metzger was divorced and remarried, and he’s now suddenly back to his original wife...!?