Sticks and Stones and a Bag of Bones

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>When a beat-up suitcase full of bones washes up by the pier the residents of the quaint resort town of Mermaid Bay are whipped into a hurricane-sized frenzy over the gruesome find in the middle of their Christmas in July festivities. The holly-jolly mood retreats like the tide with everyone wondering who was in the suitcase.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Christmas shoppe owner Jade Hicks wades into the fracas when voodoo dolls and mysterious notes and posters about impending doom start popping up all over town threatening to destroy the economy of a community that lives and dies by tourist dollars. Then tensions crest when the prickly bookstore owner is found strangled to death with a string of holiday lights.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Jade and her French bulldog Chloe have to solve the crime before anyone else gets hurt and her business and the festival are forever tainted. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Sticks and Stones and a Bag of Bones</em><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> is the first in the Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries cozy series. </span></p><p><br></p>