Twas the Knife Before Christmas A Christmas Tree Farm Myster Format: Paperback

<b>A Christmas delight, <i>&rsquo;Twas the Knife Before Christmas</i> will charm the stockings off readers of Joanne Fluke and Leslie Meier.</b><br><br><b><i>It&rsquo;s out of the cupcake tin, into the fire for Holly White&rsquo;s best friend, Caroline. Can Holly clear Caroline&rsquo;s name in time to go caroling?</i></b><br><br>When a body turns up in a larger-than-life candy bowl filled with peppermints on the town square, Holly White is horrified to learn her best friend Caroline is the main suspect. Everyone in town, including Mistletoe, Maine&rsquo;s sheriff, saw Caroline fighting with the victim on the night of his death. Worse, a custom kitchen knife, engraved with Caroline's initials was found with him.<br><br>Now, just ten days before Christmas, Holly&rsquo;s up to her jingle bells in holiday shenanigans and in desperate need of a miracle. Juggling extra shifts at her family&rsquo;s Christmas tree farm and making enough gingerbread jewelry to satisfy the crowd is already more than she can handle-and now she has to find time to clear her best friend of murder. Add in her budding relationship with the sheriff, and a personal stalker dressed as Santa Claus, and Holly&rsquo;s ready to fly south until springtime.<br><br>But her Sherpa-lined mittens come off when Caroline is taken into custody. Can Holly wrap up the case in time for Christmas...even after she gains the true killer&rsquo;s attention? Find out in <i>&lsquo;Twas the Knife Before Christmas</i>, Jacqueline Frost&rsquo;s second pine-scented Christmas Tree Farm mystery.