From author Annie McEwen comes a holiday ho-ho-homicide!It's Christmastime in the Northwoods, and Emmy Cooper is ready to deck the halls, frost the cookies, and enjoy Covington's biggest event of the year-the annual Christmas Celebration. Visitors flock to the festive lakeside town, where Emmy's family runs the Cooper's Cove Resort, for holiday treats, handmade crafts, and the beloved tree-lighting ceremony, led by none other than Santa Claus himself.But when Emmy stumbles across a very dead Santa, the season takes a chilling turn.With Emmy's boyfriend, Officer Dean Erickson, trying to keep the investigation under wraps, Emmy and her best friend Whitney find themselves more tangled in this mystery than in last year's Christmas lights. Between town gossip, a Scrooge of a new health inspector, and long-buried secrets rising to the surface, Emmy's holiday cheer is draining faster than Ol' Robert's eggnog. Unraveling the killer's identity might take a Christmas miracle-and Emmy's running out of time. If she's not careful, she just might be the next one sleighed."An excellent cozy. I look forward to my next visit to Cooper's Cove."~ Kings River Life Magazine"This was a fun and delightfully engaging whodunit that I could not put down until all was said and done."~ Dru's Book Musings Annie McEwen is the author of the Northwoods Mysteries Series, set among the tall pines and sparkling lakes of northern Wisconsin, where she spent her vacations as a kid and now visits her sister and family, who live in the very area she writes about. A former farm kid, Annie and her husband are empty nesters living in their rural Indiana home. Their grown children and two young grandsons live nearby, so they enjoy as much family time as possible. Being grandparents is definitely the best gig ever! They also have four fur babies, one of whom is a very important character in her books. When Annie isn't writing or tackling trash-to-treasure projects, she works as a radiological technologist, aka, she takes pictures of bones...you can't hide much from her! She's a member of Sisters in Crime and loves attending mystery conventions and meeting readers. When Emmy Cooper returns to her family's lake cottage resort, she expects to get a much-needed break... but what she finds instead was a dead body! The pushy land developer wasn't loved in life, and now suspects in his murder seem to be coming out of the woodwork, including Emmy's own father. To clear her dad's name and get to the truth, Emmy must find out who would resort to murder.
