Santa's Little Heist

A Robbery. A Murder. Santa?

In SANTA'S LITTLE HEIST, A Christmas Mystery Novella, Inspector Ethan Hunter and Chief Inspector Darcy Carrington are the skeleton crew in the homicide department for the next seventy-two hours in a subdivisional police station in the UK.

On Christmas Day, when a body is reported in a closed shopping mall, the investigators must ferret out the mysterious identity of the murder victim - when they do identify him, they discover that multiple crimes have been committed, crimes that may involve several departments. This is no open-and-shut case, and the longer they investigate, the more baffling the clues become.

When forensic evidence begins to point them in the right direction for solving the crimes of murder and robbery, Hunter and Carrington put their best efforts toward bringing the subject's murder and mayhem to an end. Along the way, a little romance develops between the unlikely partners, but a Christmas blizzard and Carrington's possible personal involvement with a witness could land them in hot water with the Captain and destroy the case they're building.

Can this dynamic team of two brilliant but sometimes obsessive detectives make sense of the mounting questions and solve the case before the murderer in the Santa suit disappears with the diamonds?

St. Nick has never behaved so badly. And Hunter and Carrington have never worked this closely!

SANTA'S LITTLE HEIST by P. D. Lake and Eve Paludan is a 27,700+ words mystery novella set in London during the Christmas season. A bonus amusement included at the end of the book is 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE VAMPIRES' CHRISTMAS, a short parody poem by Mike Cecconi, a professional standup comic and science fiction / fantasy author.

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Genre: Mystery