A Tail of Bonfire Night Murder
(2026)(The sixth book in the Charity and Muffin Cozy English Mystery series)
A novel by Lucy Emblem
Bonfires, bangers, toffee apples … and murder. Guy Fawkes Night has arrived at Malvern View.
The residents of Malvern View Retirement Village are throwing an old-fashioned Bonfire Night for the local community, complete with sausages, parkin, toffee apples, fireworks – and enough enthusiastic helpers to ensure that nothing could possibly go wrong.
Charity Cleveland has even found herself involved with the local children, who are building Guys and collecting money for a wildlife charity while learning how to keep animals safe during the festivities. If she can also persuade them that hurling throwdowns at unsuspecting passers-by is not an essential British tradition, she’ll consider the evening a success.
But when darkness falls and the fireworks begin, things rapidly get out of hand.
Rockets go where rockets definitely shouldn’t. Catherine wheels make a bid for freedom. The carefully organised display descends into glorious chaos.
And somewhere among the bonfires, bangs and bewildered villagers, someone has murder in mind.
When a body is discovered, Charity finds herself once again hot on the trail of a killer. With Muffin at her side, Dorothy ready with tea and ideas, and plenty of Malvern View residents offering considerably more assistance than anyone asked for, Charity must uncover the truth before the culprit gets away.
A Tail of Bonfire Night Murder is a warm and witty English cozy mystery packed with village life, friendship, lovable dogs, eccentric characters and a mystery with plenty of twists – perfect for readers who like their murders served with tea, cake and a generous helping of British humour.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
The residents of Malvern View Retirement Village are throwing an old-fashioned Bonfire Night for the local community, complete with sausages, parkin, toffee apples, fireworks – and enough enthusiastic helpers to ensure that nothing could possibly go wrong.
Charity Cleveland has even found herself involved with the local children, who are building Guys and collecting money for a wildlife charity while learning how to keep animals safe during the festivities. If she can also persuade them that hurling throwdowns at unsuspecting passers-by is not an essential British tradition, she’ll consider the evening a success.
But when darkness falls and the fireworks begin, things rapidly get out of hand.
Rockets go where rockets definitely shouldn’t. Catherine wheels make a bid for freedom. The carefully organised display descends into glorious chaos.
And somewhere among the bonfires, bangs and bewildered villagers, someone has murder in mind.
When a body is discovered, Charity finds herself once again hot on the trail of a killer. With Muffin at her side, Dorothy ready with tea and ideas, and plenty of Malvern View residents offering considerably more assistance than anyone asked for, Charity must uncover the truth before the culprit gets away.
A Tail of Bonfire Night Murder is a warm and witty English cozy mystery packed with village life, friendship, lovable dogs, eccentric characters and a mystery with plenty of twists – perfect for readers who like their murders served with tea, cake and a generous helping of British humour.
Genre: Cozy Mystery