Although I haven’t held a giveaway contest since I moved, I always shut down the contests at Thanksgiving so I don’t have to go to the post office with the Christmas rush. So, I’ll do one last giveaway this year because I bought two just released Christmas mysteries at the Buckeye Book Fair just so I could do this. Good luck!
Stalking Around the Christmas Tree is Jacqueline Frost’s most recent Christmas Tree Farm Mystery. For inn keeper Holly White, Christmas time in Mistletoe, Maine, is the ultimate holiday gift. Business at the Reindeer Games Inn is booming, her wedding to Sheriff Evan Gray is nearly here, and the annual parade is about to begin. The town is lucky to have another gift this year with the state’s ballet company staying for several performances of The Nutcracker. But disaster strikes when Tiffany, the lead ballerina, shows up dead on a float during the parade, the Rat King’s mask nearby. Holly will have to spruce up her sleuthing skills if she wants to catch the killer before Christmas—and her wedding day.
Immediately, Holly discovers that Tiffany had more than a few secrets. She finds out that the star of the show had a super fan that no one knows anything about. And the show’s understudy slips some other intriguing information Holly’s way: not only was Tiffany secretly seeing someone romantically, but there seems to be more than one rat in this company. When Holly discovers a secret passage leading to Tiffany’s dressing room, with footprints leading out; she wonders if this is evidence of a secret lover—or a stalking killer.
Perhaps you’d like to win Alex Erickson’s Death by Peppermint Cappuccino, a Bookstore Cafe Mystery. It’s set in charming small-town Ohio, where bookstore-cafe owner Krissy Hancock has a sideline in sleuthing. Christmas has come to Pine Hills, and Krissy’s blooming relationship with Officer Paul Dalton has her in an especially festive mood. The café’s new seasonal signature drink is a hit too. But not everyone shares the same holiday spirit. There are some loud complaints about businesses profiting off the season and losing focus on what Christmas is really about. And as if on cue, a shop owner who’d been price-gouging his customers is found dead after receiving a mysterious gift . . .
Krissy doesn’t want to let the troubling events put a damper on the holiday, especially with her father and his girlfriend in town. But when other shop owners are targeted
she has no choice. She needs to wrap up this case quickly before one of her friends—or even Krissy herself—ends up on a Grinchy killer’s deadly gift list . . .
Which Christmas cozy mystery would you like to win? You can enter to win both, but I need separate entries. Email me at Lesa.Holstine@gmail.com. Your subject heading should read either “Win Stalking Around the Christmas Tree” or “Win Death by Peppermint Cappuccino.” If you’ve never participated in one of my giveaways before, you must include your name and mailing address so I can send the book to you if you win. The giveaway will end Thursday, Nov. 16 at 5 PM ET. Entries from the U.S. only, please. Good luck!
