Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret

Author/Guide: Benjamin Stevenson

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2024: 24 advent calendar doors. 23 clues. And 1 killer to catch before Christmas .

ISBN: 978-0241716090
Genre: Cosy crime, Fiction

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What you need to know before your trail

My name is Ernest Cunningham. I’m not a detective. I just happen to have a knack for what makes mysteries – and murderers – tick. I’d hoped, this Christmas, that any killers out there might be willing to take a break for the holidays.

I was wrong. So here I am, backstage at the Christmas show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. From the magician’s assistant to the hypnotist, my suspects are all professional tricksters. Masters in the art of misdirection.

My clues are even more of a mystery:

A suspect covered in blood, with no memory of how it got there. A murder committed without setting foot inside the room where it happens.

And an advent calendar. Because, you know. It’s Christmas. Solving the murder is the only gift I want this year.

But can I catch a killer, and make it home for Christmas alive?

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Katoomba

What a great location for a novel! One about magic too. Still, there’s no magic needed when looking at this view as it is stunning!

Katoomba’s main industry is tourism based on its mountain scenery. The rock formation known as the Three Sisters, viewable from Echo Point about 2 kilometres south. Here it’s the magic show and murder that is the main attraction.

The Blue Mountains are famous for the Three Sisters. These beautiful young ladies had fallen in love with three brothers from the Nepean tribe, yet tribal law forbade them to marry. The brothers were not happy to accept this law and so decided to use force to capture the three sisters causing a major tribal battle.