Father Tom Christmas is attending a Robbie Burns meal in a hotel during a
snowstorm in the village of Thornford with eleven others. They are
joined, unexpectedly, by a woman hoping to get a room before the full
force of the storm hits. All of the guests are shocked when the host,
Will Moir, is found dead after the meal. No help is available due to
the snow.
A post mortem indicates that Will was poisoned. The
poison was taxine, a product of the yew berry. Could the tartlets sent
to the Burns meal by Christmas' housekeeper been the cause?
Later
Father Christmas learns that Will had taken out a new life insurance
policy on himself. Did he know that death was imminent? Another
question arises as a result of the inquest; could the poison have
possibly been meant for someone else?
Things take a tragic turn
at the Wassail ceremony, when a woman standing beside Father Christmas
is shot and killed. How is her death linked to the first? Or is it?
Author
C. C. Benison offers up a number of possible suspects throughout this
murder mystery before presenting the real culprit, which at no time did
this reader suspect. A good read.
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