Jessica Fletcher meets Tim Burton in this creative and witty cozy
mystery series from Liz Ireland, filled with unconventional characters,
year-round Christmas cheer, and a unique heroine who's married to the
real-life Santa Claus!
April Claus has grown to love her new North Pole home almost as much as
she loves her husband, Nick--Santa himself. But even in Christmastown,
the holidays can be murder...
April Claus is getting an early gift for her second Christmas in
Santaland. Her dear friend, Claire, is visiting from Oregon, and April
hopes to show off her adoptive country at its cozy, glittering best. But
when the annual ice sculpture contest is derailed by a kamikaze
drone-deer, it's just the first in a series of un-festive events...
Drone-deer, created by inventor elf Blinky Brightlow, are none too
popular with the genuine, flesh-and-hoof kind, who are currently on
strike. With no reindeer games to keep them in shape, Nick worries they
may get too chunky to pull his sleigh come Christmas. Now Blinky is
missing, his girlfriend, Juniper, is under suspicion, and between rogue
reindeer and conniving elves, all of Santaland seems to have gone
sugarplum-crazy. Add a dash of murder to the mix, and suddenly April is
battling not just to clear Juniper's name, but to save herself from
being put on ice--permanently...
