A Christmas Beginning

A Christmas Beginning is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2007 by Anne Perry

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Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Perry, Anne.

A Christmas beginning : a novel / Anne Perry.

p. cm.

1. Murder—Fiction. 2. Anglesey (Wales)—Fiction. 3. Aristocracy (Social class)—Fiction. 4. Great Britain—History—Victoria, 1837–1901—Fiction. 5. Christmas stories. I. Title.

PR6066.E693C465 2007

823'.914—dc22

2007026444

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