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Hazel and Daisy trade mistletoe for a murder investigation and set out to save the day (Christmas Day that is!) in this fabulously festive fifth novel of the Wells & Wong Mystery series.Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the Christmas holidays in snowy Cambridge. Hazel is looking forward to a calm vacation among the beautiful spires, cozy libraries, and inviting tea-rooms. But there is danger lurking in the dark stairwells of ancient Maudlin College and two days before Christmas, there is a terrible accident. At least, it appears to be an accident - until the Detective Society looks a little closer, and realizes a murder has taken place. Faced with several irritating grown-ups and fierce competition from a rival agency, they must use all their cunning and courage if they're going to find the killer before Christmas dinner.
About the Author
Robin's books are: Murder Most Unladylike (Murder is Bad Manners in the USA) , Arsenic for Tea (Poison is Not Polite in the USA) , First Class Murder, Jolly Foul Play, Mistletoe and Murder, Cream Buns and Crime (containing the ebook shorts The Case of the Blue Violet and The Case of the Deepdean Vampire) , A Spoonful of Murder, Death in the Spotlight, Top Marks for Murder, Death Sets Sail and the anthology Once Upon a Crime (August 2021, containing the short stories The Case of the Missing Treasure and The Case of the Drowned Pearl) . She is also the author of The Guggenheim Mystery, the sequel to Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery, and has contributed to the anthologies Mystery and Mayhem and Return to Wonderland.Robin Stevens was born in California and grew up in Oxford, England, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She has been making up stories all her life.When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realized that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when she grew up. When it occurred to her that she was never going to be able to grow her own spectacular walrus mustache, she decided that Agatha Christie was the more achievable option.She spent her teenage years at Cheltenham Ladies' College, a boarding school in England, reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she'd get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn't) . She then went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and worked at a children's publisher.Robin is now a full-time author who lives in England with her family. Her website can be found at www.robin-stevens.co.uk, and her social media is @redbreastedbird.