Holly Winter Mysteries, Books 1 - 4 by Loren Ruby

Author:Loren, Ruby [Loren, Ruby]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

Murder Beneath the Mistletoe

The Santa Claus Conundrum

Holly Winter sat at her kitchen table looking at the two envelopes in front of her. She’d opened both and had read the contents of each, but was no closer to a solution.

One envelope contained an invitation to George Strauss’s Christmas work party in just a couple of days’ time. The other envelope held a handwritten note from Holly’s private detective friend, Rob Frost. The note simply read: ‘We need to have a serious talk.’

In Holly’s experience, serious talks were never about anything good. You didn’t have a serious talk about the plausibility of unicorns having once existed, or what a tyrannosaurus rex would look like trying to put on a duvet cover with its tiny arms. Serious talks were always about relationships going wrong, or finding yourself deep in debt with no way out. The main thing that bothered her was that she didn’t even know what he wanted to have a serious talk about. He’d written the note before inviting himself into her house. It had also been before George had turned up and made things awkward.

Holly couldn’t remember committing any grievous offence against Rob prior to that time, or even during the visit. She wondered what was on Rob’s mind while also not really wanting to call and find out. It was nearly Christmas, and having narrowly avoided being murdered for the second time in less than a month, the last thing she wanted to think about was anything serious.

After a brief period of indecision, she picked up the phone and dialled.

“Hi… I’d like to accept your invitation to the Christmas party,” Holly said when George picked up the phone. After a few further pleasantries were exchanged, she hung up and got herself ready for another day’s work at her private detective agency, Frost and Winter.

When she arrived, she wasn’t surprised to find that her secretary, Becky, was nowhere to be seen. Having only just begun her business, Holly was still discovering whether or not it could truly be profitable, which meant she’d been unable to take the financial risk of employing a full-time secretary. She’d been reduced to employing a part-timer. Unfortunately, she was getting exactly what she paid for - which was, admittedly, not a lot.

Holly opened up the little office, her breath clouding in the morning’s chill. She couldn’t believe that Christmas was suddenly so close and that she was unexpectedly the owner of her very own detective agency. One month ago, she’d never have predicted it.

The agency had come about after Holly had won the chance to attend the annual meeting of the seven greatest detectives in the UK. However, what was supposed to have been a weekend of good food and thrilling stories had soon turned to murder and mayhem, as an unknown killer had picked the detectives off one by one. Holly and Rob Frost (one of the great detectives) were the only survivors. It had been Rob who had given her the little push she needed to start the business.

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