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Hosting an award-winning novelist is quite a Christmas coup for the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straw Society. But when he s murdered in Lizzie Turner s house, she s got a holiday homicide on her hands For their very first guest author event, most of the book club members can t wait to pull out all the stops in Southern hospitality. But for Lizzie, Derek Alton is nothing but trouble from his massive ego to his smarmy moves. When he s found murdered in her living room, it seems someone decided that this womanizing writer would be better off dead than read. After suspicion falls on Lizzie s friend, she and her fellow book club members discover that Derek wasn t who he pretended to be. Cracking this case means going up against Lizzie s boyfriend, police chief Mark Dreyfus, and unearthing a novel s worth of nasty secrets. And as they get closer to uncovering Derek s scandalous final manuscript, someone hiding in plain sight is out to write finis to Lizzie s sleuthing for good "