Murder at Chapel Court: A Christmas Village Cozy Mystery

About Murder at Chapel Court: A Christmas Village Cozy Mystery

At Chapel Court, Christmas is meant to bring candlelight, carols, and generosity. Instead, it brings murder. District nurse Hester Finch expects a long evening of elderly parishioners, overexcited choir children, and too much mulled wine.

Then visiting antiquarian Peregrine Holt is found dead in the vestry just after announcing that Chapel Court’s prized relic is genuine. The scandal turns dangerous at once when suspicion falls on Dr. Lucian Bell, the man who trained Hester, protected her, and knows more about her late mother than he has ever admitted.

If Hester cannot clear him, she may lose one of the only people she has ever trusted. But the deeper she digs into Christmas donors, parish rivalries, missing keys, and quiet lies told in chapel shadows, the clearer it becomes that Holt did not die over a simple dispute about a valuable relic. Because the relic was hiding something.

Something placed there years ago. Something tied to the old St. Agnes Home for Mothers.

Something that suggests Nora Finch did not die by accident after all. Now Hester must untangle a house full of polished smiles, frightened witnesses, and holiday respectability before a killer buries the truth for good.