A Christmas Garland

In an alien world haunted by memories of massacre, he is the accused mans only hope. Despite no witnesses and no evidence against him, a luckless British medical orderly named John Tallis is arrested as an accomplice simply because he was the only soldier unaccounted for when these baffling crimes were committed. In the British garrison, a guard is killed and an Indian prisoner escapes, which leads to yet more British deaths. Though chosen to defend Tallis, young Lieutenant Victor Narraway is not en

Tallis is being tried as a traitor, and the 20-year-old Narraway is to handle his defense. In addition, a prisoner, Dhuleep Singh, escaped, leading to the massacre of a British patrol. From Booklist When Lieutenant Victor Narraway arrives in Cawnpore, India, emotions are still raw from the 1857 Indian mutiny and the atrocities that rebels committed at the Bibighar. --Sue OBrien . Tallis, however, proclaims his innocence, and Narraway believes him. After an investigation, the army found that medical orderly Corporal John Tallis was the only man who didn’t have an

Narraway's First Investigation Christmas comes at the end of October for me with the arrival of Anne Perry's latest Christmas novel; it's a present I can't wait to open. And A Christmas Garland lives up to its promise. As I read the book, two movies came to mind for two different reasons. The first was Hart's War, which starred Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell. Set in a prisoner of war camp in World War II, the movie features a trial in which a young, green lieutenant (Farrell) is forced by the colonel (Willis) to defend a prisoner in a court martial. The similarities between the Lt. Hart. J & L Rigod said Christmas in India. This novel is set in Cawnpore, India after the Siege of Cawnpore, 1857. A man is accused, by being the only man not accountable for, of allowing a prison break, and subsequent murder of further British deaths.A young Lieutenant, Narraway, must try to defend John Tallis knowing that it is considered only a formality and that the judge has already determined his man's guilt.In two days, Narraway has to recreate the actual break and re-interview all the persons connected. He meets the widows and children of many of the fallen soldiers. Through intense study, . a terrific Christmas novella from Anne Perry Although I'd actually gotten a bit tired of these, for a change, I actually loved last year's annual Christmas novella from Anne Perry. She typically takes a minor character from one of her series and writes a non-traditional type of Christmas story around them.In this one, she takes a minor character from one of the Pitt novels, albeit a character I'm not familiar with, and goes back to his early days as a young lieutenant in India after a siege. A prisoner escapes and, as a result, nearly an entire British patrol is killed. The lieutenant is ordered to t

Anne Perry is the author of two Victorian–era series––one featuring investigator William Monk, the other featuring police inspector Thomas Pitt––as well as a series set amid World War I. She lives in the Scottish Highlands.