Christmas Sweets

 

Shirley J.      Adult Fiction       A love story, a murder mystery and a jewelry heist all at Christmas

Christmas Sweets (Large Print) by Joanne Fluke,  Laura Levine and Leslie Meier     489 pages

Three delicious stories (complete with recipes in the first one!) that will put you in the holiday spirit.  Joanne Flukes story is about a boarding school where some of the students must stay at school over the holidays for  varying reasons.   The two newest teachers are recruited to stay with them during the interim and suddenly find themselves falling for each other.   The kids have other ideas, though, and the boys set out to sabotage said blooming romance.   A good story with lots of great ideas on things to do with kids during the holidays that are fun and loads of recipes for sweets to prepare together.   

The second story as told by an not entirely jolly elf who gets stuck playing the role to a real jerk of a santa impersonator.   The universe has a way of dealing with the situation and a murder mystery takes place that just happens to be up the elf's skill set even though she is a suspect.     

The third story is about a working gal at a hotel during the holidays.  When her vacation home gets cancelled due to a rich muckety-muck booking the hotel for 4 days for 600 of his closest friends for a media blitz blow out blingle ball where the 47 million dollar jewels he just bought his former porn star wife will be displayed for all to see or will they?

Fun stories, excellent sounding recipes and holiday decorations a plenty.   Even help from unlikely places.  Thoroughly enjoyable and easy reads you won't want to stop reading till they are done.   I recommend this book to mystery loving middle-schoolers on up.