Crafts and Life

The holidays are Jenna Hart’s favorite time of year, but just as she’s decorating the Cookbook Nook for all the festive events, her imperious older sister makes a surprise visit, anxious that her husband’s been more naughty than nice. To make matters worse, her father’s good friend Jake shows up on her doorstep with a frantic report that his friend has been murdered—trussed with Christmas lights and impaled with a tree star.

Worried that Jake was the intended victim, Jenna makes a list of suspects and checks it twice. Swapping her Santa’s hat for a sleuthing cap, she gets busy investigating Jake’s long-lost sister, his Grinch of a neighbor, and a stamp collector who covets Jake’s most treasured piece. When Jake himself is poisoned and nearly dies, Jenna knows she’ll have to do whatever it takes to corner the culprit before it’s lights out for Jake . . .

'Tis the Season to be Jolly, but not everyone seems to have got the memo in this great addition to the Cookbook Nook series!

Jenna's father and Bailey's mother have gone on a romantic Danube cruise, so Jenna is a little surprised when her sister, brother-in-law and one of her nieces show up at her house! Apparently Lacy is taking part in the Christmas a capella singing contest being run in town and so the three of them are spending time at Jenna and Whitney's father's house.  Whitney is hoping that the break will help bring Lacy out of her Goth shell and more to the point she hopes to find out if her husband really is having an affair!  Mind you finding out the latter gets put on hold when they find a friend of Old Jake's dead at Jake's house and Jake and Spencer seem to be in the frame as murderers! So now Jenna and her friends (and surprisingly her family) need to find out the truth otherwise someone is going to have a really bad Christmas.