Chrissie Loveday
ASIN: B019FVCBIS
Publisher: Lume Books (December 15, 2015)
Pages: 144
It’s December and the Fordyce’s Christmas grotto is looking as festive and busy as ever. So when Jimmy North, a veteran at playing Santa, realises his elf is missing, he thinks nothing of it. Oblivious to the danger he’s in, Jimmy returns to work the next day to find Julie Bennett crammed into the changing room locker with her neck snapped in half. Who would want to kill an elf? Is the question Jimmy asks himself. More poignant questions are asked by experienced Detective Chief Inspector Ray Jones and his younger partner Detective Sergeant Ted Wilkes, who is quick off the mark. Attempting to get the bottom of this Christmas crime, Wilkes and Jones interview Julie’s friends Marie Stookes and Daphne Hargreaves who lived in the flat Julie owner and also worked at Fordyce’s shop. They discover that Julie had an unexpectedly rough boyfriend who the girls didn’t like. But despite his criminal ...