HOLLY, MISTLETOE and MURDER

HOLLY, MISTLETOE & MURDER is a continuation of the previous book STALKERS UNLIMITED and the seventh in the Sophie Curtiss Murder Mysteries. It has been an eventful life filled with happiness and sadness, and as a reporter she was often drawn into crimes of the worst kind, within her own family, her town and abroad. With her fiftieth birthday next year and remarried to Mike Tinsley, a fellow reporter, she'd first met when starting out as a cub reporter Sophie is still traumatised from the death of her first husband. She is depressed and broken, her mind and body exhausted.It is during a shopping trip on a Saturday before Christmas an elderly shop owner Henry Hardwick is stabbed to death in his office and Sophie is a suspect, especially when, on returning home, Sophie discovers, in the bottom of her shopping bag, the very ornate paper knife that killed him. It's covered in blood and there are stains, which look like blood, streaked across her jacket which makes her a suspect. The trouble is she has no memory of how the murder weapon got in her bag or how the stains got on her jacket. She couldn't possibly have killed him, could she? If only she could remember!