As the festive season approaches, Charlotte Pitt's grandmamma, is facing Christmas alone. When she receives an unexpected gift, memories are sparked of a Christmas in Haslemere long ago, when her beloved friend Cullen Wesley died and a local villager was brutally murdered, with no killer brought to justice. The unsolved case has resurfaced and Cullen's grandson, Peter, begs for her help to solve the crime. A new Christmas novella from the Queen of Victorian crime.