Faith Newberry is on the case as an unseen Scrooge sets out to ruin Castleton Manor’s Christmas with coldhearted murder.
This Christmas, Castleton Manor resort is hosting the Charles Dickens Society’s annual gala, complete with parlor games and dramatic readings of A Christmas Carol, and culminating in a costume ball. When a thief nicks some valuable antique jewelry from one of the suites, Castleton librarian Faith Newberry is more than happy to leave the investigation to the Lighthouse Bay police. But when the obnoxious president of the society is found dead beneath the village’s fifty-foot Christmas tree and Faith’s boss is suspected of the crime, Faith has no choice but to make the unkind man’s death her business.
Faith will need all the help she can get from her friends, and especially from her fearless feline, Watson, to unmask the assailant — or is that wassailant? — before Castleton Manor’s surplus population is decreased by yet one more.
This clever whodunit from Annie’s Secrets of the Castleton Manor Library series is a must-read for fans of cozy mysteries, reading, pets, and female friendships.
Faith Newberry is on the case as an unseen Scrooge sets out to ruin Castleton Manor’s Christmas with coldhearted murder.
This Christmas, Castleton Manor resort is hosting the Charles Dickens Society’s annual gala, complete with parlor games and dramatic readings of A Christmas Carol, and culminating in a costume ball. When a thief nicks some valuable antique jewelry from one of the suites, Castleton librarian Faith Newberry is more than happy to leave the investigation to the Lighthouse Bay police. But when the obnoxious president of the society is found dead beneath the village’s fifty-foot Christmas tree and Faith’s boss is suspected of the crime, Faith has no choice but to make the unkind man’s death her business.
Faith will need all the help she can get from her friends, and especially from her fearless feline, Watson, to unmask the assailant — or is that wassailant? — before Castleton Manor’s surplus population is decreased by yet one more.
This clever whodunit from Annie’s Secrets of the Castleton Manor Library series is a must-read for fans of cozy mysteries, reading, pets, and female friendships.