A Candle on the Christmas Hearth is an exciting Christmas murder mystery and three heartwarming short stories to melt your yuletide heart.

A Cornish Christmas Obsession

Two weeks before Christmas, and the last thing the good people of Marazion were expecting was a murder in their midst.

So it was a good thing that Jago Tilley didn’t know his fate as he made his unsteady way home from the village pub that snowy night.

A Stockingful of Love

Charlene Grainger hated Christmas. Love was for normal children, not the ones like her, forced to live amongst strangers in a children’s home. It was a time to ignore …or maybe a time for more dangerous adventures?

A Christmas Without Merrie

Amid the hurly burly of Christmas celebrations in Mousehole, as thousands of visitors pack into the tiny village to see the lights, and cars and coaches jostle for space in the busy parking areas …a child vanishes!

The Village that Cried for Christmas

Detective Chief Inspector Sam Kitto screwed up his face, watching the steady flow of people climb the steps and make their way along the narrow path to the church door, and thought how much he hated Christmas.

‘Tourists come from all over the world to see this church’s carving of the mermaid,’ Loveday said

‘Is that why we’re here?’

‘Blame my aunt Eleanor, she’s in charge of the choir at tonight’s Christmas carol service and more or less insisted on us being here.’

Sam rolled his eyes. ‘This’ll be fun,’ he said.