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A Holly Jolly Murder
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Joan Hess
ISBN: 0312349165
Mass Market Paperback
Publication Date: October 2006
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
List Price: $6.99
Synposis
(from the publisher): With Farberville's college on holiday break,
Claire Malloy's bookstore is quiet . . . deadly quiet. Breaking the
silence is a little old lady looking for volumes on pagan rituals,
applied magick, and Celtic mysticism. Claire is intrigued and--miffed
that her lover, Farberville police Lieutenant Peter Rosen, says she's
in a rut--happily accepts an invitation to welcome the winter solstice
at dawn.
Showing up at the Sacred Grove, Claire expects wild chanting or even
nude dancing. Instead she ends up sitting a stump watching the Arch
Druid clean her bifocals. Then winter arrives and so does a dead man.
Someone has shot the wealthy benefactor of Farberville's neo-pagans.
Now Claire is mixing some snooping with her Christmas shopping. But
instead of wrapping of the case, she finds out ‘tis the season
for ho- ho- homicide . . . and she may be the next victim.
Additional Notes:
12th mystery in this series.
Hardcover: Dutton 0525942408, November 1997.
