A Christmas Homecoming: A Novel by Anne Perry; The Christmas Stories, Book 9; Unabridged MP3 Audio Book; Narrator Terrence Hardiman

Charlotte Pitt’s mother, Caroline, travels with her young husband, Joshua Fielding, and his theatrical troupe to Whitby, where Dracula first touched English soil. Joshua has arranged to produce a stage adaptation of Dracula by the daughter of Whitby millionaire Charles Netheridge, but the amateurish script produces a disastrous first read-through. As tempers flare and wind and snow swirl around Netheridge’s lonely hilltop mansion, a black-cloaked stranger emerges from the storm—an eerily opportune arrival, for this enigmatic figure, one Anton Ballin, turns out to be a theatrical genius. At the same time, a brooding evil makes itself felt. Instead of the theatrical triumph that Netheridge desired for his daughter, there is murder—shocking and terrifying.

Anne Perry Anne Perry is the author of two Victorian-era series-one featuring investigator William Monk, the other featuring police inspector Thomas Pitt-as well as a new series set amid World War I. She lives in the Scottish Highlands.

Terrence Hardiman has worked extensively in theatre. He began at the Old Vic, went on to repertory at Bristol, and then spent five years as a member of the RSC. He has played the title role in BBC TV's The Demon Headmaster, while other television appearances include major parts in Secret Army, Miss Marple, Hannay, and Inspector Morse. Among his film credits are Mask of Murder, Loophole, and Gandhi.