A review by daniellesalwaysreading
Lady Osbaldestone and the Missing Christmas Carols by Stephanie Laurens

2.0

There wasn't enough Christmas description (the story could have been set at any time and there would have been few changes to make) to get me in the spirit and the most interesting part of the mystery was resolved in just a few pages. There was way too much searching every house in the village to find the carols without too much of much else. Rather than having a romantic small village at Christmas feel like the first book in the series, the feeling I got from this entry was a grating sense of the entitled elite having no problems and being waited on by the lower classes who had to drop everything for no good reason.
I did have a long break between starting and finishing the book (had to return it and wait to get it again), which usually makes weak books much worse. I will still read the next book in the series; hopefully this was just a fluke and Laurens will return with the Christmas spirit for with the next installment.