When a costumed, pike-spiked body turns up after a traditional historic re-enactment of the 1645 Battle of Thornford, the Reverend Tom "Father" Christmas and the villagers of Thornford Regis find themselves in a battle of their own as they deal with events from the murky, more recent past. C.C. Benison's latest intriguing and delightful Father Christmas mystery will leave cosy mystery readers puzzling over the outcome and, like a refreshing English cream tea, wishing there were more.