Death on the Christmas House Tour: A Candlelit Country House Cozy Mystery

About Death on the Christmas House Tour: A Candlelit Country House Cozy Mystery

On Bramble Cross’s candlelit Christmas House Tour, the prettiest historic homes in town are dressed to look perfect. Then a man is found dead in a locked nursery. Clementine “Clemmie” Hart is meant to be helping Hart & Home through the busiest season of the year, not stepping into another murder investigation.

But when the victim turns out to be a conservation architect who quietly contacted Clemmie about one of her late mother’s missing appraisal notebooks, the case becomes impossible to ignore. This time, everything is on the line. Anonymous complaints are already threatening to shut Hart & Home down.

Now Clemmie is chasing a killer through glittering parlors, hidden service passages, and beautifully restored houses whose owners have far too much to hide. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that the Christmas House Tour was never only about festive charm. Someone has been deciding which old homes deserve to be saved and which deserve to be stripped bare.

And the reason has nothing to do with beauty. With preservation committee members, investors, decorators, anxious homeowners, and powerful town figures all guarding their own secrets, Clemmie must untangle what the dead man discovered before the truth is sealed away for good. Because in Bramble Cross, even Christmas can be used as cover.