Storm in the Wassail Bowl
In the second installment of the Hal Westwood mysteries, set just after the 1660 Restoration of Charles II, Hal, his wife and child, and his siblings Ned and Bess visit their sister Mary, Lady Jolyon for Christmas. After discovering that all is not well in the Jolyon marriage, they find themselves snowed in with a murderer on the loose and Mary under suspicion. Hal, Ned and their brother-in-law Justin (who has just married Bess against her family's wishes) must find the criminal before he (or she) strikes again.