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Wassail Night
Paperback
Series: The Field-Book Mysteries., Book 4
Mystery & ThrillerHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Kindred Quill Publishing
Published: Nov 27 2026
Pages: 348
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Devon, 1799. A farm goes out into the frost to wassail its apple trees. When the guns fall silent, a man lies dead beneath the oldest tree.
On Old Twelfth Night the whole of Sevenash Barton goes down the orchard with lanterns. They sing to the Old Tree, lay cider-soaked toast in its branches for the robins, and fire their guns into the dark to drive off whatever might harm next year's crop.
The surveyor Angharad Pryce has come to measure the orchard her own father planted out, tree by tree, ten years before. She is standing in the ring with a cup in her hand when the guns go off together.
When the smoke clears, the farmer's eldest son is lying under the Old Tree with a musket ball in his chest. Every man there fired. Nobody loaded ball. And by morning the snow has shut every road in the valley and buried every footprint in the orchard.
The old people say the orchard takes a life in a bad year, and it has been a bad year. Angharad has her father's plan, a lantern, and the hour before the snow. She knows where everyone was standing. She knows where somebody wasn't.
The fourth of the Field-Book Mysteries, following Where the Foxgloves Grow, The Harvest Jug and The Bounds: a snowbound Georgian mystery of orchards, cider, ledgers and old customs, and a woman who trusts a measured line over a parish's story.
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