Sugarplum Dead (Death on Demand Series #12)

Mystery bookstore-owner Annie Darling and her ebullient husband Max are looking forward to a simple Low Country Christmas. But as they discover, the holidays can be complicated-and deadly. Christmas plans go on hold with the arrival of Annie's father, whom she hasn't seen in 25 years, a teenage girl who wants Annie to be her big sister, and an ex-stepmother whom she's never met. Then there's the slew of revelers flocking to Broward's Rock-many of them the disgruntled exes and unloving relatives of aging film star Marguerite Dumaney Ladson. This gaggle of old acquaintances is shocked when the Grande Dame announces she's leaving all her money to a shady spiritualist guru-a set-up perfect for murder…