Jaine Austen
Kensington
October 2018
On Sale: September 25, 2018
304 pages ISBN: 1496708490 EAN: 9781496708496 Kindle: B078QRKN8G Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Freelance writer Jaine Austen is feeling festive about spending Christmas house-sitting at a posh Bel Air mansion, accompanied by her friend Lance and her cat, Prozac. But when a grumpy neighbor gets himself iced, sheโll have to find the culprit or she may spend the New Year in jail . . . Scotty Parker is a former child star who once played Tiny Tim, but now heโs grown up into the role of neighborhood Scrooge. He cuts the wires on his neighborsโ Christmas lights and tells local kids that Santa had a stroke. And his miserly, bah-humbug attitude lasts year-roundโa fact known all too well by his current wife, his ex-wife, his maid, and many more.
Scotty thinks he can stage a comeback with the screenplay heโs working on (The Return of Tiny Tim: Vengeance Is Mine!), and Jaineโs been reluctantly helping him edit it. So when Scotty is bludgeoned with a frozen chocolate yule log and the police start making a list of suspects and checking it twice, Jaineโs name is unfortunately included. True, sheโs been under some stress, with Lance trying to set her up on dates and her fickle feline taking a sudden liking to someone elseโbut sheโs not guilty of murder. Now she just has to prove it, by using her gift for detection and figuring out who committed this holiday homicide.
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