Six brand new stories help mystery lovers celebrate the season with forensics, fingerprints, and fatal fa la la las. Snuggle up to the Yule log with ANN CROWLEIGH, who sends her larceny-and-old-lace Clively sisters into a hall decked with holly and an unsolved murder from a Christmas past...CONNIE FEDDERSEN, whose intrepid Amanda Hazard makes a holiday beauty appointment and ends up a hair's breadth from sudden death...LOUISE HENDRICKSEN, who sends Dr. Amy Prescott home to Lomitas Island to discover whether a woman has been wrongly charged with the murder her children say Santa committed...TONI L. P. KELNER, who gives her Laura Fleming the holiday blues and a bloody clue that comes gift-wrapped...J. DAYNE LAMB, who decides that what amateur detective Teal Stewart really wants for Christmas is a new romance and a dead body decorated with bows... and PAT WARREN, whose Kate Kennedy stumbles on a red-suited corpse and starts searching for the Scrooge who iced jolly old Saint Nick.
So go easy on the sugar plums...the best treat of all is discovering whodunit!