Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #138380 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Synopsis
A quartet of holiday stories of romance and suspense includes J.D. Robb's "Midnight in Death," Susan Plunkett's "Christmas Promises," Dee Holmes's "The Unexpected Gift," and Claire Cross's "A Berry Merry Christmas." Reissue.

Customer Reviews

False advertising?
Assessing an anthology is always difficult since it is very rarely that anyone would like all the stories equally but my problem with this anthology isn't that. The cover says that these are stories of "romance and suspense" or it may be vice versa and I naively assumed that all the stories would therefore contain both romance and suspense. I was wrong. In a way, it didn't matter for me as I had ordered it only because I felt like reading something seasonal and I ended up quite enjoying all the stories. If I had expected them to be crackling with both romance and suspense, I would have been bitterly disappointed. They vary from sheer whimsy (with no real mystery) to fairly gritty but the only thing they have in common is a Christmas setting. If, like me, your only criterion for choosing this book was because it promised to be Christmassy, then go ahead but don't expect the combination of stories to be at all cogent.

Worth it!
This anthology contains three excellent stories. "Midnight In Death", though, was extremely dry and confusing. My favorite was "A Berry Merry Christmas"

Bravo JD Robb!
MIDNIGHT IN DEATH was execllent and packed a lot of adventure into a few pages. This was the best story in the book (and the reason I bought it in the first place)... I will re-read it as is my habit when I re-read all the JD Robb books when her next one comes out.

As for the other three stories: I liked THE UNEXPECTED GIFT and CHRISTMAS PROMISES enough that I will probably re-read them next Christmas when I'm in a mushy mood. A BERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS was a nice fluff piece, but I probably won't re-read it.

The five-star rating is based on the JD Robb section alone.

THE UNEXPECTED GIFT ****

CHRISTMAS PROMISES ***1/2

A BERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS *1/2