Colorful Christmas lights dapple the family homes in the idyllic
lakeside town of Sweet Haven when Jennifer Dean, a young librarian at
the local elementary school, is brutally murdered. There are witnesses
and her boyfriend Travis Blake confesses to the crime... but something
doesn't quite add up. Blake is a third generation Army Ranger, awarded
the Silver Star for his heroism in Afghanistan--how could a beloved son
of this tight-knit burgh commit such a grisly deed?
As a community of military families a few miles down the road from an
Army base, no one in Sweet Haven wants to investigate a war hero like
Blake, not even the top brass at the police department. In steps Cameron
Winter, a rugged and lonesome English professor haunted by the ghosts of
his own Christmas past, whose former lover asks him to prove Blake
innocent. The Sweet Haven murder reverberates in his mind, echoing a
horrific yuletide memory from his youth, and Winter knows there are
darker powers at play here than a simple domestic dispute. If he can
solve this small-town mystery, just maybe he can find peace from his
inner demons as well.
The thirty-sixth novel by two-time Edgar Award winner Andrew Klavan,
When Christmas Comes is a seasonal tale of tradition, family, and
murder; its chilling twists are best experienced curled up beside a
burning Yule log.
