A review by judyward
A Christmas Garland by Anne Perry

3.0

Every year Anne Perry writes a short Christmas novel to mark the season. This year's offering is set in India in 1857 just months after the Siege of Cawnpore with all of its horrors on both sides. After a British soldier is killed and an Indian prisoner escapes, everyone at the British camp is under suspicion. A popular medical orderly, John Tallis, is arrested only because he is the only member of the British garrison whose movements couldn't be verified during the incident. It's up to Lt. Victor Narraway to discover the truth and he is helped by a Christmas garland made for him by a child preparing for the holidays. Not the strongest book of this Christmas series, but the information about British soldiers in India during and after the mutiny was fascinating.