Here comes Santa paws

It's the most wonderful time of the year in Connecticut, but Melanie Travis finds surviving this December may take a real Christmas miracle when a yuletide murderer comes to town . . . As Melanie attempts to deck the halls in a house overrun by pampered Poodles, her event planner friend, Claire, is...

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Main Author: Berenson, Laurien (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Kensington Books, 2019.
Edition:First Kensington hardcover edition.
Series:Berenson, Laurien. Melanie Travis mystery ; 24.
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Summary:It's the most wonderful time of the year in Connecticut, but Melanie Travis finds surviving this December may take a real Christmas miracle when a yuletide murderer comes to town . . . As Melanie attempts to deck the halls in a house overrun by pampered Poodles, her event planner friend, Claire, is busy playing Santa--beard and belly not included--for the wealthiest clientele on Connecticut's Gold Coast. A personal shopper gig in the affluent town of New Canaan seems like business as usual. Except Claire's stylish stint comes at a higher price than she bargains for when she stumbles over her newest customer's dead body on the job. Named a prime suspect for murder, she begs for Melanie's help, then vanishes like cookies and milk on Christmas Eve . . . Determined to track down Claire, Melanie and her nosy Aunt Peg dash into a dizzying investigation that leads to even more questions. Why was homicide victim Lila Moran, a secretive woman with an untraceable past, permitted to live on a well-known socialite-turned-recluse's private estate, and is Claire keeping her own incriminating secrets under wraps? Now, with a grinchy New Canaan detective on their case and disturbing clues piling up like presents beneath the tree, the crime-solving duo must rein in a sinister Kris Kringle before they're the next ones on someone's deadly wish list.
Physical Description:196 pages ; 19 cm.
ISBN:9781496718457
1496718453
Author Notes:LAURIEN BERENSON is an Agatha and Macavity nominee, winner of the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, andfour-time winner of the Maxwell Award, presented by the Dog Writers Association of America. She and her husband liveon a farm in Kentucky surrounded by dogs and horses. Readers can visit her website at- www.LaurienBerenson.com.