Bring Christmas to Cambridge. Help Pippa’s little brother. Try not to stumble across a dead body.

Selling festive bakes at Cambridge’s Christmas celebrations was supposed to be Jessica Askew’s biggest challenge of the week.

Instead, she arrives to find Pippa’s younger brother Finn at the centre of a murder investigation after his date is found dead in her college room. With the police sure to suspect the scholarship student, Jessica can’t stand by and do nothing.

Pippa refuses to abandon her brother. Jessica refuses to abandon her best friend. And every clue seems to point straight back to Finn.

Between serving mince pies to hungry students, sneaking into centuries-old colleges and untangling secrets hidden behind ancient traditions, Jessica must find the truth before an innocent man loses the future he’s worked so hard to build.

Jessica has survived frantic festive markets, impossible catering jobs and one unforgettable Christmas in a city of colleges, choirs and centuries-old traditions.

Surely, she can solve one small murder.

For fans of Clare Chase’s Eve Mallow Mysteries and M.C. Beaton’s Agatha Raisin—or anyone who’s ever wished they could see the snow fall with mulled wine and a mince pie in a cozy Cambridge college. Featuring real-life feline investigators Miss Marple and Madame Poirot, traditional English baking recipes, and no graphic violence or strong language.

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