Silent Knife

Event planner Liv Montgomery is full of yuletide cheerbut its hard to remain festive when someones out to slay Santa in the second Celebration Bay mystery. Its Liv Montgomerys first Christmas out of Manhattan and in Celebration Bay. Theyve got a tree to rival Rockefeller Centers, but this years holidays are turning out to be a disaster. As the small towns event planner, Liv wants everything to be perfect. Unfortunately, the local Christmas shop has been replaced by the gaudy Trim a Treecomplete with tacky ornaments and a new replacement Santa who isnt spreading any cheer. At the towns annual Celebration of Lights, Trim a Tree is the only shop left unlit. Liv, furious, goes to investigate, and discovers something even less festivethe stores new Santa has been murdered. Small-town gossip begins to stir, and Liv must clear the name of the previous town Santa just in the nick of time before the real killer ruins Christmas.