TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swanson,Peter
TI  - The Christmas guest: a novella 
SN  - 9780063297456
AV  - PS3619 .W36 C5 2023
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Women art students
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Americans
KW  - England
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Siblings
KW  - Manors
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Étudiantes en art
KW  - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - Meurtre
KW  - Enquêtes
KW  - Frères et s¶urs
KW  - Secret
KW  - Christmas stories
KW  - aat
KW  - FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - College students
KW  - sears
KW  - Homicide
KW  - Psychopaths
KW  - Christmas
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - novellas
KW  - Christmas fiction
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Novellas
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - Mystery fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N2  - When a last-minute invitation from fellow student Emma Chapman brings her to Starvewood Hall for the holidays, Ashley Smith, an American art student in London, discovers this seemingly charming English village's grim history when a local girl is brutally murdered and Emma's brother is linked to the crime; Ashley Smith, an American art student in London for her junior year, was planning on spending Christmas alone, but a last-minute invitation from fellow student Emma Chapman brings her to Starvewood Hall, country residence of the Chapman family. The Cotswold manor house, festooned in pine boughs and crammed with guests for Christmas week, is a dream come true for Ashley. She is mesmerized by the cozy, firelit house, the large family, and the charming village of Clevemoor, but also by Adam Chapman, Emma's aloof and handsome brother. But Adam is being investigated by the local police over the recent brutal slaying of a girl from the village, and there is a mysterious stranger who haunts the woodland path between Starvewood Hall and the local pub. Ashley begins to wonder what kind of story she is actually inhabiting. Is she in a grand romance? A gothic tale? Or has she wandered into something far more sinister and terrifying than she'd ever imagined? Over thirty years later the events of that horrific week are revisited, along with a diary from that time. What began in a small English village in 1989 reaches its ghostly conclusion in modern-day New York, many Christmas seasons later
ER  -