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Death of a Neighborhood Scrooge - Laura Levine

By Laura Levine

Release Date: 2018-09-25

Genre: Women Sleuths

4.5 (9 ratings)
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ā€œExemplary . . . a thoroughly enjoyable cozy with just the right balance of crime, humor, and holiday spiritā€ by the author of Death of a Bachelorette (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
 
Freelance writer Jaine Austen is feeling festive about spending Christmas house-sitting at a posh Bel Air mansion, accompanied by her friend Lance and her cat, Prozac. But when a grumpy neighbor gets himself iced, sheā€™ll have to find the culprit or she may spend the New Year in jail . . .
 
Scotty Parker is a former child star who once played Tiny Tim, but now heā€™s grown up into the role of neighborhood Scrooge. He cuts the wires on his neighborsā€™ Christmas lights and tells local kids that Santa had a stroke. And his miserly, bah-humbug attitude lasts year-roundā€”a fact known all too well by his current wife, his ex-wife, his maid, and many more.
 
Scotty thinks he can stage a comeback with the screenplay heā€™s working on (The Return of Tiny Tim: Vengeance Is Mine!), and Jaineā€™s been reluctantly helping him edit it. So when Scotty is bludgeoned with a frozen chocolate yule log and the police start making a list of suspects and checking it twice, Jaineā€™s name is unfortunately included. True, sheā€™s been under some stress, with Lance trying to set her up on dates and her fickle feline taking a sudden liking to someone elseā€”but sheā€™s not guilty of murder. Now she just has to prove it . . .
 
Praise for the Jaine Austen mysteries
 
ā€œSo outrageously funny.ā€ ā€”Joanne Fluke, New York Times bestselling author
 
ā€œJaine can really dish it out.ā€ ā€”The New York Times Book Review

Death of a Neighborhood Scrooge - Laura Levine

By Laura Levine

Release Date: 2018-09-25

Genre: Women Sleuths

4.5 (9 ratings)
Read Download
ā€œExemplary . . . a thoroughly enjoyable cozy with just the right balance of crime, humor, and holiday spiritā€ by the author of Death of a Bachelorette (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
 
Freelance writer Jaine Austen is feeling festive about spending Christmas house-sitting at a posh Bel Air mansion, accompanied by her friend Lance and her cat, Prozac. But when a grumpy neighbor gets himself iced, sheā€™ll have to find the culprit or she may spend the New Year in jail . . .
 
Scotty Parker is a former child star who once played Tiny Tim, but now heā€™s grown up into the role of neighborhood Scrooge. He cuts the wires on his neighborsā€™ Christmas lights and tells local kids that Santa had a stroke. And his miserly, bah-humbug attitude lasts year-roundā€”a fact known all too well by his current wife, his ex-wife, his maid, and many more.
 
Scotty thinks he can stage a comeback with the screenplay heā€™s working on (The Return of Tiny Tim: Vengeance Is Mine!), and Jaineā€™s been reluctantly helping him edit it. So when Scotty is bludgeoned with a frozen chocolate yule log and the police start making a list of suspects and checking it twice, Jaineā€™s name is unfortunately included. True, sheā€™s been under some stress, with Lance trying to set her up on dates and her fickle feline taking a sudden liking to someone elseā€”but sheā€™s not guilty of murder. Now she just has to prove it . . .
 
Praise for the Jaine Austen mysteries
 
ā€œSo outrageously funny.ā€ ā€”Joanne Fluke, New York Times bestselling author
 
ā€œJaine can really dish it out.ā€ ā€”The New York Times Book Review

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