Crafts and Life

It’s Christmas in Sinful and Fortune is set to participate in all the local hoopla. A Christmas gala, caroling, and a sleigh ride are on the agenda. Murder is not. But when someone bumps off Santa, Fortune is aware a killer is lurking among the holiday cheer. But with no client and no reason to interfere with a police investigation, it looks as if Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie will have to sit this one out.

Big and Little Hebert might be criminals, but they prefer no competition in their territory, especially someone brazen enough to kill a man at the Christmas gala. When they hire Fortune to investigate the man’s death, she gets her Christmas wish and Swamp Team 3 sets out to solve their final case of the year.

Fortune is about to sample Christmas, Sinful style.  This means real animals at the Nativity (which provided a few sniggers when Celia managed to slip on and fall into something unmentionable!), but then things get a little more serious when Santa is found dead in his chair! Fortune manages to distract the kids and get them to the other end of the hall (much to the relief of the parents!) whilst she, Ida Belle and a paramedic try and revive him.  Then they discover it isn't the Santa they were expecting and he was murdered!

With Fortune, Ida Belle and Gertie sidelined they are expecting to just hear about things as they happened, but then the Heberts hire Fortune to find out what happened and why are kids important to the dead Santa … so a Merry Christmas after all!