Death, Snow, and Mistletoe

Zusatztext "Valerie S. Malmont's sense of humor is crisp and Tori Miracle         is good fun."   -- The Courier-Journal (Louisville! Ky.) "Cute along the lines of Lilian Jackson Braun's cozies." -- San Jose Mercury News Don't' miss the other acclaimed novels in Valerie S. Malmont's Tori Miracle Mystery Series Death! Guns! And Sticky Buns Death! Lies! And Apple Pies Death Pays The Rose RentM Informationen zum Autor Valerie S. Malmont is the author of the Tori Miracle mysteries, including  Death, Lies, and Apple Pies   and  Death Pays the Rose Rent . She grew up on Okinawa, Japan, and studied anthropology at the University of New Mexico and library science at the University of Washington. Malmont lives in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Klappentext Murder in the holiday spirit It was Christmas in Lickin Creek, and all through the town something was stirring..The borough council was quarreling about the color of the Christmas lights. A social worker wouldn't let a living baby be part of the town's living crèche. And some ladies were stretching the limits of their leotards in a pageant called the Nutcracker. All in all, former New Yorker Tori Miracle was basking in the quaint glow of her adopted Pennsylvania town, when suddenly the season went sour. A boy was missing. A thirty-year-old mystery resurfaced. And now two people have been murdered. With her boyfriend--the town police chief--out of town, Tori must help his befuddled replacement. And what she finds out, or should be finding out, is making Tori the next target--of someone only in the mood for murder....O come all ye faithful The stone spires of trinity evangelical Church hovered like gray ghosts in the  star-studded darkness above Lickin Creek. Brilliant splashes of  colored light streamed from the church's authentic Tiffany windows  and lay on the snow-covered brick sidewalk like gleaming jewels  spilled from a pirate's treasure chest. The air was warmer now than  earlier this afternoon when the first snow of the season had fallen  on this small, pre-Civil War town. Garnet had left his huge blue monster-truck with me to use while  he was in Costa Rica, but I still had  trouble manipulating it in tight places, so I parked on the street  rather than trying to squeeze into one of the narrow spaces in the church  parking lot. I was scheduled to photograph the cast of the Lickin Creek Community  Theatre rehearsing the annual Christmas pageant, and as usual I was running  late--but only by half an hour tonight, a definite improvement. Was it my  fault that three churches in the borough had trinity in their  names? I'd been unfortunate enough to visit the other two first. I grabbed my canvas fanny pack, my notebook, and the  Chronicle's antique camera, and ran toward the neo-Gothic  building. After trying the front doors and finding them locked, I finally  entered the church through a side entrance, which was an anachronism of glass  and aluminum decorated with a wreath of plastic greenery and ribbons. I found  myself in a long beige hallway, facing a row of closed doors on either  side. After disturbing the choir at practice and barging into an Alcoholics  Anonymous group meeting in the nursery, I followed a trail of noise down a  flight of concrete steps and through a set of double doors into a basement room  that ran the length of the church. To my left was a small kitchen, separated from the larger room by a waist-high counter on which stood several  stainless steel coffee urns and many heaping platters of cookies. The main part of the hall, on my right, was packed with people, mostly  women. I recognized several members of the Lickin Creek borough council as well  as several county commissioners, and I guessed this was the politically correct  basement to be in this cold winter evening. Some people...

Product details

• Authors: Valerie S Malmont
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.11.2000
• EAN: 9780440236016
• ISBN: 978-0-440-23601-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 175 mm x 20 mm