The Christmas Novellas · Book 7
A Christmas Promise
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 226
- ISBN-13
- 9780345516671
- Type
- novella

About this book
A Christmas Promise, published in 2009, followed A Christmas Grace as the seventh of Perry's annual Christmas mysteries. Like its predecessors it's a stand-alone case rather than a continuation of anything from the earlier books, part of a tradition Perry would keep up for over a decade more.
Its place in The Christmas Novellas
A Christmas Promise is book 7 in the The Christmas Novellas series. It follows A Christmas Grace. It is followed by A Christmas Odyssey. See the full The Christmas Novellas reading order.
Starting in 2003, Anne Perry published a new short mystery novella every autumn, timed for the Christmas gift-book market, for twenty-one consecutive years. Each is a self-contained Victorian- or Edwardian-era whodunit, generally featuring a minor character borrowed from her Charlotte and Thomas Pitt or William Monk novels -- a friend, relative, or supporting player given their own case to solve away from the main series -- rather than continuing either series' central cast, and each is built around a seasonal…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345516671