Ho-Ho-Homicide: Liss MacCrimmon Scottish Mystery
Kaitlyn Dunnett
Kensington, Oct 28 2014, $24.00
ISBN 9780758292834
In Moosetookalook, Maine, Gina Snowe asks her high school BFF Liss
MacCrimmon Ruskin to look at the Christmas tree farm in New Boston she inherited
from a late great-uncle to see if it is a feasible money-making enterprise. Owner of the successful Scottish Emporium,
Liss agrees to help her Chicago-based lawyer friend though they had drifted
apart several years ago. She and her husband
Dan decide to check out the farm that is a couple of hours west of their home with
a one week pre-holiday paid vacation.
However, the town and the farm residents lack the Christmas spirit
as seemingly everyone demands the visitors leave. Liss learns of a corpse buried amidst a
delivery to New York and the farm’s owner vanished. As Liss investigates the cold case incidents,
the uncooperative locals, especially the cops, resent her inquiry, but one of
them has a deadly vendetta.
The eighth Liss MacCrimmon Scottish Mystery
(see Vampires, Bones, And Treacle Scones; and Bagpipes, Brides, And Homicides
and Scotched) is a pleasurable twisting Yuletide amateur sleuth. Although the Ruskin relationship is not quite
as cozy as the detecting into the farm and town, this is a Merry Christmas
tale.
Harriet Klausner
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