Holiday In Death

She smelled it, fresh death. Both metallic and fruity. Easing the door all the way open, she found it . . .

It''s Christmas-time in New York City, but homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas struggles to get into the holiday spirit. Finding a woman strangled to death by a murderous Santa doesn''t help. And he''s left behind a present: a partridge in a pear tree, pinned to the victim''s hair.

With a creeping...