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“But I never wanted to see a mitten again, murderous or otherwise.”

Settle in for visits with old friends and new in this three novella Christmas set compilation from some of my favorite cozy mystery authors. Hayley Powell is back on the case when a knitter gets done in by one of her own needles right in the middle of the Bar Harbor Christmas Bazaar. When someone Mia loves comes into contact with an ancient curse attached to a Christmas mitten she won’t rest until she finds a way to save her. And finally CeCe Barton’s origin story sees her hunting down a murderer to keep her twin out of jail. This is a must read!

Three stories about murder and Christmas Mittens
First is an older woman from a knitting club is found stabbed with her knitting needle and a mitten stuffed in her mouth in the garden outside the church fundraiser. Many people in town had reasons not to like the woman, but who had enough reason to kill her?
Second is the body of a married college professor who liked to drink and rumored to sleep around found dead in the parking lot outside of a holiday party with a single Christmas mitten found nearby. The town coven becomes involved in finding the murderer due to the curse that surrounds the pair of mittens that when they are separated whoever touches the single mitten will die. The best friend of a young woman who the coven wants to join them touched the mitten and is now in need of a miracle to survive.
Third is a woman who not many in the wine town liked killed when a bocce ball in a Christmas mitten swung and hit her in the head. Can CeCe and her new friend Cam help the police find the murderer before they arrest CeCe's twin sister Allie for the murder.
(Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy)

A fun prequel to the Hayley Powell series. We’re introduced to the family when Hayley and Danny are still married and the kids are under ten. When the Addams family 2.0 moves into the haunted house next door the only logical thing to happen would be that Hayley stumbles upon her first dead body. Letting Danny’s over active imagination worm it’s way into her only complicates the matter while Hayley’s natural curiosity leads her right to the killer.