The release date for the English version of 'The Christmas Appeal' by
Janice Hallett is Oct 2023. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The entertaining Fairway Players theater group is followed as they put on a Christmas performance and solve a murder that puts their production in jeopardy in this immersive holiday escapade described as a "modern Agatha Christie" (The Sunday Times, London).
Lower Lockwood is getting ready for Christmas, and the Fairway Players are working hard to prepare for their joyful production of Jack and the Beanstalk, which they are doing to raise money for a new church roof. But despite the season, there's a noticeable lack of goodwill among the amateur theater fans, who have petty rivalries, a beanstalk that might contain asbestos, and certain actors who are always absent from the production.
Not to mention the issue of the deceased body onstage. Who might have had the victim on their list of unwanted people? Watch as Femi and Charlotte, the attorneys, go through emails, look through police transcripts, and probe Christmas letters in an effort to discover the murderer and victim before their holiday performance ends—for good.