TWELVE DRUMMERS DRUMMING

Bought in a three-book North American pre-empt by Bantam, from the internationally published and award-winning
author of the Her Majesty Investigates mysteries comes a new, Christmas-themed cozy mystery series—the perfect
whodunits to curl up with over the holidays, for fans of M.C. Beaton and Rhys Bowen, with over 43,000 copies sold!

Introducing a series utterly perfect for cozy fans of Alan Bradley, Alexander McCall Smith, and Louise Penny. The Reverend Tom “Father” Christmas, the newest vicar of Thornford Regis, an idyllic rural town in England, turns detective when one of his parishioners turns up dead in a drum, and everyone in town seems to have something to confess. Tom Christmas came to picturesque Thornford Regis with his young daughter to escape the terrible experience of losing his wife in the city. Her murder sent him packing to the bucolic and charming town, where violent crime isn't supposed to happen and the greatest sin is supposed to be nothing a member of the clergy can't handle. Then, at the town fair, a woman is found murdered. Tom
soon learns that everyone in Thornford Regis has a secret to hide—infidelity, theft, even past murders.

C.C. Benison is a pseudonym of Doug Whiteway, author of the Her Majesty Investigates mystery series. International rights to the series were sold to the UK (Macmillan, Spain (Plaza y Janes, Germany (Econ Taschenbuch Verlag and Japan (Hayakawa Publishing. Doug has worked as a full-time journalist for numerous newspapers and magazines in Canada and has won a National Magazine Award and the Arthur Ellis Award for best first mystery novel. The award-winning author lives in Winnipeg.