Christmas Eve 1989. A couple is found slumped in front of their twinkling Christmas tree in an apparent murder-suicide . . .Today. Librarian Pru Pearce is preparing for her wedding to police detective Andy Barnes. But after one of her Women’s Institute friends suffers a suspicious accident at Rookery Grange a home for the elderly and infirm Pru and the other ladies are on alert. And when one of the residents is asphyxiated with a pillow no one can rest easy . . .With her wedding taking a disastrous turn and a killer on the loose the part-time detective makes another vow: to investigate and solve the mystery. Will she unravel generations of murderous secrets and find the culprit?

Part of the Prunella Pearce series.