Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

It’s Christmas in Lyme Regis, and DC Tina Abbott is looking forward to some well-earned time with her family.

But then her mum Annie, true to form, reports a crime. The pottery shop has been broken into and the owner Peg, Annie’s friend, attacked.

The evidence is scant. A solitary fingerprint in blood, but nothing stolen, at least as far as the police can tell.

But when Annie discovers a gaudy pottery reindeer that was left at the scene of the crime, she and her swimming club friends get drawn into the mystery.

Was the man who attacked Peg the same man PC Dougie Anderson almost ran over on the night of the crime? Why does the local councillor keep turning up? Does the car Annie saw leaving the scene belong to her friend Rosamund’s husband? And just what’s going on at the dilapidated café across the way from the pottery?

About the authors

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2. My name’s Rachel McLean and I write stories you can’t put down, with characters you’ll be rooting for.I’m best known for my Dorset Crime series, which has sold over a million copies. The first book in that series, The Corfe Castle Murders, won the 2021 Kindle Storyteller Award.Here’s what Clare Balding (the lead judge) had to say about the book:’I particularly enjoyed the detail of the landscape and the humorous oddities of Dorset life. I enjoyed the richness of the characters, complexity of life for a working mother who is thrown into a new environment and has to prove herself, all over again.’But The Corfe Castle Murders is by no means my only book. I’ve published books in six series, all of which connect. You’ll find characters from each series in one or more of the other ones, so you (and I) get to follow them as they take on new challenges.You can read a full list of the series and books on my website and get advice on which order to read them in. Each series is designed to be read in order but which series you go for first is really up to you. Happy reading!
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5. Millie Ravensworth is the pen name of two authors, Heide Goody and Iain Grant. They have been writing entertaining and humorous novels together for more than ten years. The Millie Ravensworth books focus on their shared passion for crime stories. They love sitting down together to create charming characters that readers will want to spend time with.

Our Review

The Shattered Bauble is a wonderful Christmas mystery, which makes an ideal gift for anyone who loves whodunnits, the stunning Jurassic Coast, or evil seagulls. 

The characters and the location are delightful and a joy to read about. Everything feels so real, it was as if I was really there. I have been to this part of the Jurassic Coast, and reading this story really took me back there.

I love being an armchair detective, and Rachel makes it such fun to follow along.

This is one hell of a read, and I look forward to many more!