Holiday in Death
(Book)

It's Christmas time in New York City, but homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas struggles to get into the holiday spirit. Finding a woman strangeled to death by a murderous Santa doesn't help. And he's left a present behind: a patridge in a pear tree, pinned to the victim's hair. With creeping dread, Eve watches the bodies miunt and realizes the key - the killer is counting down the twelve days to Christmas. And there is only one connection. The victims had been using the same dating service. Eve enters a dark world where searching for 'The One' is fraught with terror, leaving her racing to find the murderer as things get much too close to home. -- back cover.