A Devon Midwinter Murder

Amateur sleuth Juno Browne helps to organise a Christmas Fair to raise funds for her friend's animal sanctuary. The event is a success, but while Santa is handing out presents in the fairy-lit  grotto, a murder is being committed in a dark corner of the garden. Juno discovers the body of Bob the Blacksmith, clutching a horseshoe decorated with a sprig of elder.

Suspicion falls on Bob's long-suffering wife, and on Don Drummond, with whom Bob quarrelled violently in the past. From this cloud of suspicion Juno finds links to previous 'accidental' deaths, and must navigate her way between pagan ceremonies and astrological connections that turn up more bodies on a deadly path to the truth.