A Christmas pleasure, ‘Twas the Blade Before Xmas will elegance the stockings off readers of Joanne Fluke and Leslie Meier.

It’s out of the cupcake tin, in to the fire for Holly White’s closest friend, Caroline. Can Holly apparent Caroline’s name with time to visit caroling?

Whenever a body turns up in the dumpster in back of Caroline’s Cupcakes, Holly White is horrified to learn her closest friend Caroline is the main suspect. Everyone around, including Mistletoe, Maine’s sheriff, saw Caroline fighting using the about ‘Twas the Blade before Christmas: A Xmas Tree Farm Secret victim on the night time of his death. Even worse, Caroline’s fingerprints are on the murder weapon, a custom-designed marble rolling pin.

Now, just ten days before Xmas, Holly’s up to her jingle bells in vacation shenanigans and in desperate want of a wonder. Juggling extra shifts at her family’s Christmas tree farm and making plenty of gingerbread jewelry to satisfy the crowd has already been a lot more than she can handle-and right now she has to find time for you to obvious her best friend of murder. Add in her budding romantic relationship with the sheriff, and run-ins with an ex-fiance looking to make amends, and Holly’s ready to fly south until springtime.

But her Sherpa-lined mittens arrive off when Caroline is taken into custody. Can Holly wrap up the case in time for Christmas … actually after she increases the true killer’s attention? Find out in ‘Twas the Knife Before Christmas, Jacqueline Frost’s second pine-scented Christmas Tree Farm secret.