title: Death, Snow, and Mistletoe (Tori Miracle Mysteries, No. 4)
author:  Valerie S. Malmont 
description: Malmont's latest Tori Miracle mystery (after Death, Guns, and Sticky Buns, etc.) takes readers to the backwoods of Lickin Creek, Pa., where Tori, editor of the town's only newspaper, is busy covering the community theater's annual Christmas pageant (a Wiccan-cum-Shakespearean adaptation of The Nutcracker). The assignment is interrupted abruptly when the town's only full-time policeman, Luscious Miller, comes bursting into the church hall with the news that five-year-old Kevin PoffenbergerDlast seen by two older and tight-lipped cousinsDis lost deep in the snow-covered woods. During the search for Kevin, the remains of another child missing for the past 37 years are uncovered. Soon after, two of the pageant's middle-aged sugar plum fairies are murdered, leaving Tori to wonder if Lickin Creek has a serial killer on its hands, or if someone is trying to prevent a long-buried secret from being revealed. As Tori slowly unravels the mystery, she keeps company with some pretty strange characters, including an evil child, a flamboyant TV psychic, an art teacher who trains cats to become artists, goddess-worshiping witches and dozens of other equally chilling and eccentric oddballs. With so much going on, it's easy to get lost in the absurd clutter, but readers who enjoy wading through the clues and chaos Malmont liberally supplies will find that this cozyDalbeit typically offbeat and cornyDread provides a barrel of fun. (Nov. 14) <br />Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **WIDOW IN MISTLETOE**
  
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  _**Brides By Chance Regency Adventures**_
  
  _**Book Seven**_
  
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  **Elizabeth Bailey**
  
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  **Table of Contents**
  
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  _CHAPTER ONE_
  
  _CHAPTER TWO_
  
  _CHAPTER THREE_
  
  _CHAPTER FOUR_
  
  _CHAPTER FIVE_
  
  _CHAPTER SIX_
  
  _CHAPTER SEVEN_
  
  _CHAPTER EIGHT_
  
  _CHAPTER NINE_
  
  _CHAPTER TEN_
  
  _CHAPTER ELEVEN_
  
  _CHAPTER TWELVE_
  
  _CHAPTER THIRTEEN_
  
  _CHAPTER FOURTEEN_
  
  _CHAPTER FIFTEEN_
  
  _CHAPTER SIXTEEN_
  
  _A NOTE TO THE READER_
  
  _HEAR MORE FROM ELIZABETH BAILEY_
  
  _ALSO BY ELIZABETH BAILEY_
  
  **CHAPTER ONE**
  
  The muffled clop of hooves disturbed the eerie silence of the snowbound
  countryside. Chloe looked across the banked white mounds to the barely visible
  ribbon of the road below, but no vehicle was yet in sight. No doubt someone
  with a pressing reason to be travelling on such a day.
  
  She plodded on along the path that ran parallel to the road, setting her
  booted feet into fresh snow. Easier to crunch anew than to risk slip