A Cornish Christmas Murder by Fiona Leitch

A murder on snowy Bodmin Moor. How exciting! Cornwall is an atmospheric and mysterious landscape, full of crashing rocks and smuggler's caves. Bodmin Moor is a vast and eerie place too, so the location of this cosy Christmas murder mystery is the perfect setting.

An ex-police officer, along with her friend, daughter and mother, has set up a catering business. The children's party they put on is in an historical abbey, with ties to murderous Tudors and the ghosts and curses they left behind. All good stuff. To top it off, there is a bad snow storm and everyone has to stay the night. My idea of the perfect Christmas.

Five more people turn up at the door (a bit like the Percy the Park Keeper children's book One Snowy Night) and so the guests have to find places to sleep other than the bedrooms. Unlike the Percy book though, one of the guests ends up dead.

​This is a fun and light read and I absolutely love the setting, which was integral to the story. This book becomes better the more it goes on and it doesn't get bogged down with technical police work but maintains puzzle solving elements. The perfect Christmas murder mystery. 

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Published by Harpercollins UK One More Chapter on 9 December 2021.
​Advanced review copy supplied by the publisher.