The Snow Lies Deep
A Mercy Carr Mystery
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- $20.99
Publisher Description
The latest thrilling installment in the bestselling Mercy Carr mystery series
Mercy and Troy are looking forward to baby Felicity’s first holiday season, and they’re determined to make it a Christmas to remember. At Northshire’s annual Solstice Soirée, hosted by Northshire’s finest and funded by Mercy’s billionaire pal Feinberg, Amy’s little girl Helena is sitting on Santa Claus’s lap. She’s telling him she’d like a Bitty Baby doll just like little Felicity when the bearded man leaps up, thrusts the toddler at her mother Amy, and staggers away from the festivities. He disappears into the woods. By the time Elvis and Mercy find him, Santa Claus aka the town mayor, is lying on his back, dead. A yule log made of oak sits on his chest, burning bright, a beacon of light on the darkest day of the year.
This strange murder is the first of a series of similar Solstice-themed killings targeting the town’s most prominent citizens. Beloved family friend Lillian Jenkins, the grande dame of Northshire, could be next. Mercy and Troy and the dogs must team up with Thrasher and Harrington to capture The Yuletide Killer before he strikes again, this time far closer to home.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Munier's captivating seventh case for former Army corporal Mercy Carr and her retired bomb-sniffing Belgian shepherd, Elvis (after The Night Woods), Mercy tackles a string of murders that hit uncomfortably close to home. At the outset, the sleepy town of Northshire, Vt., is gearing up for its annual Winter Solstice Soiree. On the night of the party, the event's Santa Claus—Lazlo "Uncle Laz" Ford, who also reluctantly serves as Northshire's mayor—fails to show up. Concerned, Mercy and Elvis go sniffing around town, only to discover a gruesome scene in the woods: Uncle Laz's dead body, hollowed out and stuffed with a flaming yule log. That turns out to be merely the first in a string of gruesome murders that plague picturesque Northshire before the holidays, which a determined Mercy discovers might have something to do with mild-mannered Uncle Laz's secret past. Munier begins by hitting familiar small-town mystery beats, then ups the stakes with unexpected twists and hints of international intrigue. The results will keep even longtime fans of the author on their toes.
