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Book Review of Mistletoe Murder (aka Mail Order Murder) (Lucy Stone, Bk 1)

Mistletoe Murder (aka Mail Order Murder) (Lucy Stone, Bk 1)
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1st in the Lucy Stone Mystery series. Quick, fun read with a very likeable,believable main character. Story set in Maine.

Mail-Order Murder...
As if baking holiday cookies, knitting a sweater for her husband's gift, and making her daughter's angel costume for the church pageant weren't enough things for Lucy Stone's busy Christmas schedule, she's also working nights at the famous mail-order company Country Cousins. But when she discovers Sam Miller, its very wealthy founder, dead in his car from an apparent suicide, the sleuth in her knows something just doesn't smell right.

Taking time out from her hectic holiday life to find out what really happened, her investigation leads to a backlog of secrets as long as Santa's Christmas Eve route. Lucy is convinced that someone murdered Sam Miller. But who and why? With each harrowing twist she uncovers in this bizarre case, another shocking revelation is exposed. Now, as Christmas draws near and Lucy gets dangerously chose to the truth, she's about to receive a present from Santa she didn't ask fora killer who won't be satisfied until everyone on his shopping list is dead, including Lucy herself...