Eleven Pipers Piping

The welcome return of C. C. Benison's delectable series featuring Father Tom Christmas--"an irresistible addition to the ranks of clerical sleuths" (Julia Spencer-Fleming) Father Tom Christmas, the recently widowed vicar adjusting to life in the English village of Thornford Regis, would do almost anything to avoid attending the annual Robert Burns Supper at the local hotel. But as chaplain to a traditional Scottish pipe band, Father Tom must deliver the grace--and contend with wailing bagpipes, whiskey-laced parishioners reciting poetry, and the culinary abomination that is haggis. As snow falls to unprecedented depths, the revelers carry on--briefly interrupted by an enigmatic stranger seeking shelter. Then Will Moir, proprietor of the hotel and a dedicated piper, inexplicably goes missing--only to be found later in the hotel's dark tower, alone and dead from what appears to be a heart attack. Father Tom's own heart sinks when he learns...