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International bestselling mystery author J. Kent Holloway spins a delightfully mischievous holiday mystery full of twists and turns sure to delight amateur sleuth fans of all ages! Holiday emporium owner Thomas Nast isn't your typical guy. His Victorian-era home is sentient with a 13-foot guard alligator named Tinsel living in its walls. A mostly invisible-and mischievous-elf named Peppermint reluctantly serves his every whim. And he just happens to be the next in line to become the real-life Santa Claus.Until that happens, however, Tom spends his days helping the people-and frequent tourists-of Christmas, Florida, with all their Christmas and other holiday needs. That is, of course, until he walks into his store one morning to find the body of a man dressed in full Santa costume-a man reviled by almost everyone in town-who's been stabbed multiple times with a pocketknife identical to six custom jobs Tom had given to his closest friends a few years earlier. With Tom's young assistant, Trixie McNamara, in police crosshairs as the prime suspect, Tom is forced to dig up the dirt on his friends, a nasty town spinster, and a semi-retired mobster to prove Trixie's innocence. But as he investigates the murder, Tom will find himself in the crosshairs of an altogether different kind if he's not careful...and Santas-in-Training, he knows, can die just like anyone else.

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“Hidden secrets are everywhere in Holloway’s The Knives Before Christmas t’s a twisty mystery wrapped up in holiday paper with a magical bow.” —Heather Weidner, author of the Pearly Girls Mysteries and the Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries

“Holloway sets the tone from the very first sentence. This is going to be a great, fun ride. His characters are unique and imaginatively drawn. And he manages to mix humor, heart and a lot of Christmas spirit into a very satisfying whodunit. It’s everything you could possibly want from a light mystery.” —Hy Conrad, head writer for USA Network’s Monk and author of Mr. Monk and the New Lieutenant “Hidden secrets are everywhere in Holloway’s The Knives Before Christmas. It’s a twisty mystery wrapped up in holiday paper with a magical bow.” —Heather Weidner, author of the Pearly Girls Mysteries and the Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries

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Bestselling author Kent Holloway lives on death. Literally. With almost thirty years of experience in forensic death investigations, he's seen it all. Experienced the worst that life has to give and never let it dim his sense of wonder or humor. Now, he brings all this experience, along with a zeal for uncovering the folklore and superstitions of death, to the written page as author of mysteries and forensic crime fiction. He currently resides in Florida.

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