The Ninth in The Coma Mysteries.
Clara Bean, the red-headed nurse, is getting the Christmas tree up early in the winter of 1972 while the Castlereagh residents have strange deaths to investigate.
Sleigh bells are ringing and Christmas albums are playing, but Abbey and her friends are occupied with an eighteenth century case about a woman found in an open grave.
Meanwhile, a park in the village of Wyntringham is being named after a young man...