A Lively Midwinter Murder by Katy Watson #literature Starting with Renaissance painters Sofonisba

Starting with Renaissance painters Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana

This is a whimsical Christmas book that gives the Victorian advent calendar tradition a contemporary twist for advent calendar door–hungry hands

'Galvanizing and uplifting' The Guardian

as Didion thinks back to Quintana’s wedding in New York seven years before

Publication: 7 Dec 2000

A Lively Midwinter Murder by Katy Watson #literature Starting with Renaissance painters SofonisbaPlanning the perfect Christmas wedding can be murder . . . A high society Christmas Eve wedding at a remote Scottish castle sounds like the perfect winter getaway for the three Dahlias and their partners until a snowstorm hits, cutting them off from the mainland, and civilisation. Which, of course, is when the dead body of one of the other guests turns up in the snow outside the family chapel. A dead body wearing a wedding dress and a stolen diamond