Discover an utterly captivating Midwest murder mystery from a bestselling authorâfilled with quirky small-town suspects you wonât forget.
Single mom Caley James has three kids, a good-for-nothing ex and the flu. When her furnace dies, during the longest cold spell Hampstead has ever seen, she thinks Christmas canât get worse. UntilâŚ
Her youngest finds a dead body in the basement.
Shifty-eyed repairman Tim Holiday was supposed to be fixing their furnace. Instead heâs the one who got burnedâso badly his face is almost unrecognizable.
Police Chief Susan Wren is on the case. But she soon realizes Caleyâs busybody neighbor knows more than theyâre letting on.
Are they hiding a secretâor hiding a killer?
Itâs up to Susan to solve the mystery before Christmas goes up in flames.
Fans of Kate Carlisle, Ellery Adams, Sarah Yarwood-Lovett, Eileen Brady, Cathy Pickens and Dorothy Cannell will be hooked from the very first page!
