It’s Christmas in the little village of Kirkby Abbey, and all DI James Waller is a quiet holiday with his family. But what shows up on his doorstep is no gift, but rather a grisly surprise and the news that there will be 12 more gifts over the the next 12 days. It’s not long before the first body is found and panic descends on the village. Everyone is a potential victim, and one of them is a killer. Pine’s British police procedural is a well crafted mystery

Fantastic read. When detective James Walker moves to a Cumbrian house, with his wife Annie, it appears to be a quiet life, compared to the Met in London. How wrong that turns out to be. For a serial killer is stalking the village, and their modus operandum is to give messages on Christmas cards, and strike. A classic whodunnit, with many suspects.
I would recommend this book highly.