"The stories in this collection are gifts, homemade for you with love by Hoosier authors and wrapped, sparkling and ticking little bombs placed under the tree. You'll find secrets, lies, twists, and quite a few red Santa suits stained with blood, as well as the recipes for treats mentioned within the stories."-- Back cover.

Christmas is murder-- when you're stranded in East Sussex with a killer. When guests at a secluded Victorian hotel start dying, all hopes for a jolly holiday are dashed.

However far you travel, trouble has a way of finding you out ... The summer holidays are a chance to escape from it all, to shrug off the troubles and cares of everyday life, and lounge on warm sands or sip a cool drink in the shade of a city square. But, as the characters in this murderously good collection of classic crime stories discover to their cost ... sometimes it's not that easy to escape your fate. An impossible murder on a Cornish beach. A honeymoon in the Italian lakes that becomes a desperate search for the truth. An African safari that ends with the tables being turned. Even in a heatwave, these tales of murder and malice will chill you like a shadow sliding across the sun.

"Two Lucy Stone Christmas mysteries in one volume"--Cover.