Death, Snow, and Mistletoe

Murder in the holiday spirit It was Christmas in Lickin Creek, and all through the town something was stirring..The borough council was quarreling about the color of the Christmas lights. A social worker wouldn't let a living baby be part of the town's living creche. And some ladies were stretching the limits of their leotards in a pageant called the Nutcracker. All in all, former New Yorker Tori Miracle was basking in the quaint glow of her adopted Pennsylvania town, when suddenly the season went sour. A boy was missing. A thirty-year-old mystery resurfaced. And now two people have been murdered. With her boyfriend--the town police chief--out of town, Tori must help his befuddled replacement. And what she finds out, or should be finding out, is making Tori the next target--of someone only in the mood for murder....

Valerie S. Malmont is the author of the Tori Miracle mysteries, including Death, Lies, and Apple Pies and Death Pays the Rose Rent. She grew up on Okinawa, Japan, and studied anthropology at the University of New Mexico and library science at the University of Washington. Malmont lives in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.