Discover an utterly captivating Midwest murder mystery from a bestselling authorāfilled with quirky small-town suspects you wonāt 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 canāt get worse. Untilā¦
Her youngest finds a dead body in the basement.
Shifty-eyed repairman Tim Holiday was supposed to be fixing their furnace. Instead heās the one who got burnedāso badly his face is almost unrecognizable.
Police Chief Susan Wren is on the case. But she soon realizes Caleyās busybody neighbor knows more than theyāre letting on.
Are they hiding a secretāor hiding a killer?
Itās 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!