A marmalade cat with a story to tell.
A librarian felled by a fruitcake.
A Christmas mystery as twisted as any fairy tale.

It's Christmas in Tablerock, Texas, and cat-rescuing mother-daughter duo Ellie and Evie Rockwell just want to find their feline residents forever homes for the holidays. Instead, they find themselves tangled in a real-life Christmas mystery straight out of a storybook.

When the town's beloved librarian Alice Grey is found bludgeoned to death by a fruitcake at the start of the holiday season, the community's tranquility shatters. Alice's grieving marmalade cat, Ginger, ends up at Silver Circle for the holidays—and once he pleads with Ellie and Evie to help solve his owner's murder, the case unravels like a chapter from one of Alice's beloved Brothers Grimm.

Digging into Alice's quiet life, Ellie and Evie discover the demure librarian had accumulated an enemies list as towering as the shelves of books she so lovingly maintained—with secrets worthy of any Dickens novel she eagerly quoted.

Will Ellie and Evie solve the murder before the final page is turned?

Fairy Tales, Fruitcake, and Murder is the fourth book in the Silver Circle Cat Rescue Mysteries—a purr-fectly cozy cat midlife series set in the small town of Tablerock, Texas with just a touch of magic.