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English teacher Sarah Deane and her boyfriend, Dr. Alex McKenzie, leave snowy Maine to join Sarah's feisty Aunt Julia for Christmas at the exclusive Rancho del Gato Blanco resort in Arizona. But they soon realize there's no place like home for the holidays when ranch guests become the prey of a prankster whose destructive acts are tallying up like a Yuletide carol:
Garden hose a-spraying...Lounge chair collapsing...Mud in the coffee...Golf carts a-stalling...Rubber snake in bathtub...Wagon wheel a-flying...
The pranks take a murderous turn Christmas morning when one of the guests turns up dead among the gifts in Santa's sack. Sarah and Alex are certain the killer lurks among them. Could it be quirky clerk Cookie Logan? Aging film star Maria Cornish? Her hot-tempered beau Blue Feather Romero? Head wrangler Peter Doubler? Or someone in the entourage of U.S. Senator Leo J. Hopgood? The police even have eccentric Aunt Julia on their list of suspects-but if Sarah and Alex don't find the killer fast, they could all end up on the list of victims.
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About the Author
J.S. Borthwick lives with her family on the Maine coast, where many of her mysteries are set.
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Nefarious doings at a swank new Arizona dude ranch mix with the presidential aspirations of a corrupt politician for a fine and lively return appearance of amateur sleuths Sarah Deane, teaching fellow, and Alex McKenzie, internist, last encountered in Bodies of Water . When Sarah's wealthy, equestrienne aunt, Julia Clancy, goes to Rancho Del Gato Blanco to escape her arthritis, she becomes concerned over a series of suspicious accidents plaguing the gaudy, pretentious establishment. Inviting Sarah and Alex to spend the holidays with her, she embroils them and movie star Maria Cornish, a fellow guest, in a scheme to save some aging ranch horses from the pet food factory. On Christmas Day, the body of Leo J. Hapgood, a senator of dubious ethics and morals with his eye on the White House, is found in the bottom of Santa Claus's bag. As the FBI and various local police swarm, Julia and her cohorts have difficulty accounting for their whereabouts the previous evening--they had been out "rescuing" (read: stealing) the doomed horses. Along with the reluctant Alex, Sarah begins an investigation, developing a friendship with the senator's widow, who turns out to be a dark horse indeed, and finding two more bodies, in a literate and witty mystery with a dollop of social conscience.
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- PublisherSt. Martin's Paperbacks
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0312929552
- ISBN 13 9780312929558
- BindingMass Market Paperback
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