Genre: Mystery
Mass Market Paperback; [Audio CD]; Digital Book
ISBN #: 9780425238257; [9781515950059]
Kensington Publishing; [Tantor Audio]
304 Pages
$7.99; [$29.99]; $7.99 Amazon
December 7, 2010
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It promises to be a jolly holiday for Sophie until a Scrooge steals the Christmas gifts from her family and neighbors. The evil elf even pinches their Christmas dinners! Sophie quickly ends the neighbors' finger-pointing by organizing a toy swap for the kids, restoring the spirit of Christmas. But not for long...
When her sister-in-law's father shows up to the Christmas celebration with a diva girlfriend just a month after his separation, someone carries out everyone's thoughts of murder. With relatives and friends under suspicion for the deadly deed, and Sophie's detective boyfriend Wolf out of town, it's up to Sophie to chase this goose and cook it. Nobody ruins her Christmas!
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Sophie Winston's sister-in-law Laci is entertaining her friends and family for Christmas Eve dinner, and while she thinks everything is going to be fine, it's not. Someone is stealing everyone's Christmas gifts, and their house is now the latest on the block to be emptied. As if this isn't enough, Laci's father shows up with his new girlfriend, Bonnie -- angering her mother Marnie, since they've only been separated a month. As if that isn't enough, they discover that Laci's younger sister Shawna is nearly engaged to Bonnie's son Beau.
But at another event, there's an altercation that sends Shawna running out in tears, and no one knowing how to handle it. Not even Sophie, who discovers Bonnie's body at her home and needs to call the police, wishing her detective boyfriend Wolf was in town instead of spending the holidays in Maine. Now, the hunt is on for a killer, and with a plethora of suspects, it's all Sophie can do to keep her family from fighting and try to figure out who left a basket of Ragdoll kittens in her sunroom...
This is the fourth book in the series, and I probably like it better than the others, although I still think that Sophie needs to grow a spine. She never says no to anyone, even when she knows she should. Another thing I don't care for is the fact that she practically thinks everyone on her suspect list is the guilty party at one time or another...and she's always wrong. Where is she getting her clues from in the first place? Just because someone acts what you think is suspiciously, doesn't mean they're a murderer. As Laci said, they all have secrets.
But, it was interesting all the same to watch everything play out with the kittens (which I do love) and find out that Mars has a backbone after all. Now we get to wait and see what happens in the next book, and if he'll revert to being wallpaper. Something to look forward to.
In the end, it all came together just the way I thought it might, since the clues were leading in that direction all along, and as we expected, the murderer was caught and the reasons for the murder were what we thought. I will read the next in the series, because this one had enough action to keep me interested enough to keep reading. Recommended.
More on Krista Davis's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/d/krista-davis/
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