title: The Merry Christmas Murders: a collection of extremely strange, short stories
author:  Louise Ann Barton 
description: Louise Ann Barton is a master storyteller from a family of Cherokee master storytellers, an author, a poet, and a lecturer. She has an MA in business education, a minor in law, and a Master Gardeners Certification. She has authored both Web and newspaper articles, novels, short stories, flash fiction, poetry, childrens stories, and plays, edits musical CD inserts, and is a ghostwriter. After a lifetime as a New Yorker, this great grandmother retired to the New Jersey Pine Barrens with her faithful, feline companion.
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  TRISHA ASHLEY
  
  
  A Christmas Cracker
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Avon
  
  
  An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street
  
  
  London SE1 9GF
  
  
  [www.harpercollins.co.uk](http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)
  
  
  First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins 2015
  
  
  Copyright © Trisha Ashley 2015
  
  
  Trisha Ashley asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this
  work.
  
  
  A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
  
  
  This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents
  portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to
  actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
  
  
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