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Murder on the First Day of Christmas

Murder on the First Day of Christmas - Billie Thomas

bookshelves: net-galley, autumn-2013, published-2012, cosy, amusing, dog-steals-the-show, chick-lit, e-book, north-americas, flufferoonies, art-forms, mystery-thriller, young-adult

Read from November 11 to 12, 2013


With thanks to NetGalley: Annie Acorn Publishing LLC

Dedication:

To my sweet, funny mom.

 

 

Description: Finding a severed hand at a client’s house might throw lesser decorators off their games. But Chloe Carstairs and her mother, Amanda, won’t let a little thing like murder keep them from decking the halls. With a body under the partridge’s pear tree and a dead Santa in a sleigh, they have to crack the case before the killer strikes again - this time much too close to home.

Filled with laugh-out-loud humor, romance and a delightfully difficult mother-daughter relationship, this new series from Billie Thomas offers a fast-paced caper as these two southern ladies try to keep their very merry Christmas from turning into the Noel from hell.


Opening: "Chloe, Lady Chablis has taken the Baby Jesus again." Mom's voice crackled on my cell phone. "Get the Vaseline."

A quick fluffy read that boasts of humour and murder. Perfect stocking filler for your high school friends.

Some topical music: Straight No Chaser - 12 Days (original from 1998)

The chocolate lab in this story is called Lady Chablis. (the name taken from the transvestite from The Garden of Good and Evil)