The Candy Cane Killer

By Alice Webb

A merry bit of Christmas shopping takes a more sinister turn when a man is found dead – stabbed to death with a candy cane. Who was the masked assailant who attacked him? And why did they choose a candy cane as a weapon? Luckily, a shrewd old lady named Alma Easter is on hand to investigate.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alice Webb
• Release date: Nov 26, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370478903

Alice Webb

Alice Webb can be found writing mysteries, eating cake or doing both at the same time.

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The Candy Cane Killer

A Christmas Mystery

Alice Webb

Copyright © 2017 by Alice Webb

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Cover illustration © 2017 by Alice Webb

Candy Cane Killer

The jumper was a true monstrosity. It had glitter, tassels and pompoms, and was the same colour as a chicken korma. It was perfect – her great-nephew, Ben, would look absolutely hideous in it. Alma paid for the jumper to be wrapped, beamed a ‘Merry Christmas’ to the cashier and tucked the package into her strawberry-print shopping bag before heading back out into the cold.

With surprising nimbleness for a woman of her advanced age, Alma extracted the shopping list from her thick blue coat and held it out between her snowmen-patterned mittens. Only one