Murder at the Brass-Band Fête: A Village Fete Mystery with Committees, Cash Tins, and Lies

About Murder at the Brass-Band Fête: A Village Fete Mystery with Committees, Cash Tins, and Lies

Larkbourne’s village fête is peak charm on the surface. Bunting, jam, brass music, polite chaos. Then the treasurer is found dead behind the stalls.

The cash tin is missing, and the village grabs the easiest story: robbery, panic, a broke teenager who’s convenient to blame. Case closed. Everyone can get back to smiling.

I’m Pip Sloane, editor of The Parish Paper, and I don’t buy it. The timing is wrong. The scene is too tidy.

And the treasurer had been quietly questioning “charity reimbursements” that don’t add up. With Biscuit at my heels and Martha the librarian beside me, I follow the trail through raffle tickets, vendor invoices, and committee paperwork that looks innocent until you notice the same names appearing over and over. DS Tom Harker wants me to stop.

Not because I’m wrong. Because this murder isn’t just about a missing tin. It’s about a system.

Murder at the Brass Band Fete is a clean, twisty English countryside cozy mystery of bunting, secrets, and deadly misdirection.