Holiday Murder
Holiday Murder is a bind-up of Leslie Meier's 1st and 6th books in the Lucy Stone series, Mistletoe Murder and Christmas Cookie Murder. Mistletoe Murder: Lucy is a wife and the mother of three young children, juggling Cub Scouts and PTA meetings, baking Christmas cookies, and playing host to holiday visitors. All of this, not to mention that she works through the night taking sales calls for Tinker's Cove's biggest business, Country Cousins. Needless to say, things are pretty hectic, but they get even more stressful when Lucy finds the owner of Country Cousins sitting in his car one snowy night, apparently having committed suicide, but soon it's discovered that the cove's wealthy entrepreneur didn't take his own life. It isn't long before Lucy hatches a plan to catch an ice cold killer. Christmas Cookie Murder: With three growing children, Lucy has plenty to keep her busy this holiday season, but now she's been wrangled into hosting Tinker's Cove's annual cookie exchange. Lucy is trying to hold things together and keep the peace, but when Lee Cummings accuses newcomer, Tucker Whitney of being a homewrecker, Lucy's get-together and her home itself starts to come apart. When Tucker is found strangled to death the town points fingers at Lee's husband, but Lucy thinks he's innocent. Lucy Stone, ever willing to find time for solving a murder, adds dangerous sleuthing to her already long to-do list. I recently reviewed the newest addition to this series, Turkey Trot Murder, and loved it! When Kensington Publishing also gave me the opportunity to review these books, I was very excited. They didn't disappoint. I really enjoyed seeing how the Lucy Stone series has progressed and was glad to see that Turkey Trot wasn't the first time Leslie Meier's books dealt with current societal issues, such as poverty, job loss, and substance abuse. These books are light hearted reads, but they also leave me feeling like I've discovered more about important issues in our society. Seeing both masterfully intertwined in a single book makes the Lucy Stone series stand out above the rest. This title is available now!