Liz McCall grew up in a playful winter wonderland but it was never her dream to manage her father’s vintage toyshop. However, after he sank his entire police pension into the business, someone needed to help him turn his dreams into reality—and keep him from sneaking off to patrol the not-so-mean streets of East Aurora, NY.
The mood goes from nice to naughty when a nervous man, who was trying to have his antique toys appraised, is found in the shop with a lawn dart through his chest. Suddenly, Liz’s business plan is plunged into deep freeze, while she and her father find themselves toying with a cold-blooded killer who’s playing for keeps.
Now, it looks like Christmas might be cancelled for the neighborhood kids if Liz can't wrap up the case in Barbara Early's delightful debut Death of a Toy Soldier.
Liz McCall's father used to be the Chief of Police for Aurora and East Aurora, NY, but all that came to an end when he was shot in the line of duty. Liz had come back to look after him but also ended up helping out at the vintage toyshop he decided to buy with his disability payment and police pension! Everything is ticking along nicely (apart from the fact that every so often the ex-Chief heads off to fight crime again – luckily the new Chief of Police is reasonably understanding), until someone comes in with some vintage tin toys to get valued, and then a few days later his is found dead in the toy shop, with a lawn dart in his chest and Hank McCall has concussion and memory loss, but seeing as they were the only two in the shop at the time it seems as though Hank could be suspect #1. Liz knows her father couldn't have done this so she starts digging, revisiting an old boyfriend along the way and getting in touch with the Paranormal – who says life should be boring?
Crafts and Life 
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