Tinsel and Trickery — Rose Pascoe

Penrose & Pyke have until Christmas Eve to save the orphans' home, by unravelling a tangle of tinsel and trickery.Private detective Charlie Pyke was looking forward to spending a quiet Christmas with his fiancée, Grace Penrose. Instead, Charlie and Grace must stop a dubious deal, find a sneak thief and foil a mischievous brother, with the help of a pair of inquisitive orphans and the spirit of a dear departed grandmother.If they can decipher the clues and make it through the dessert course, they just might survive their first family Christmas together.Tinsel and Trickery is a half-length book in the Penrose & Pyke Mystery series (Book 5.5), set in 1890s New Zealand.