I just finished one of my holiday pleasures - reading Anne Perry's annual Christmas novel. This year it's Christmas Revelation (#791).
If you read Ms. Perry's other Victorian mystery series, you'll be familiar with one of the main characters in this year's offering - Squeaky, a wizard with numbers, compelled by Sir Oliver Rathbone to give up his brothels and convert them to a clinic for former streetwalkers. The clinic staff has taken in Worm, a nine year old orphan who has settled into his first real home.
Shortly before Christmas, Worm sees a beautiful woman grabbed by a couple of rough-looking men and forced to accompany them. He follows, but he knows there's nothing he can do on his own. Squeaky knows there is something up with Worm when he returns to the clinic, and as one of the few adults Worm can trust, finds himself caught up in Worm's desire to rescue the damsel in distress.
The truth behind the abduction turns out to be ugly, so how is Squeaky to protect Worm from the evils of the world without betraying his trust at this special time of the year? It's a Christmas Revelation with as, usual, a message of redemption.
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