The Moonhaven Mysteries · Book 11
A Christmas Murder at Moonhaven Light
A Holiday Cozy Mystery
About this book
A week before Christmas, a dealer in old letters comes to Moonhaven with a secret from 1898 — and by morning he's dead at the bottom of a frozen back staircase.
The town is busy getting ready for the Lantern Walk, when everyone in Moonhaven carries a light up the cliff road to the old lighthouse on Christmas Eve. Retired homicide detective Sam Blackwood is busy too, with a warm kitchen, a doctor who knows exactly how she takes her coffee, and a Border Collie named Moss who expects to be paid in bacon.
Then Ambrose Fairweather is found on the iced steps behind Thackeray House. Everyone calls it a fall. Sam looks at his coat and sees no frost on it at all, on a night when frost lay on everything else in the yard.
His briefcase is gone. So are the letters he brought to town, letters written by Catherine Moonhaven about the night of the great gale in 1898. They tell a very different story from the one Moonhaven has told every Christmas for a hundred years.
Someone would kill to keep that story quiet. Sam has until the lanterns are lit to prove who, and to keep the last of those letters from going up in smoke.
And in the cold corner of her study, the ghost of Captain Ezra Moonhaven, who built the lighthouse and kept it, still won't talk about that night, the night his wife wrote down.
A cozy Christmas mystery of lanterns, snow, a ghost, a dog, and the truth a town has kept wrong for more than a century. Each Moonhaven mystery stands on its own; this one is a holiday visit with old friends.
