She smelled it fresh death Both metallic & fruity Easing the door all the way open she found it It's Christmas-time in New York City but homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas struggles to get into the holiday spirit Finding a woman strangled to death by a murderous Santa doesn't help & he's left behind a present a partridge in a pear tree pinned to the victim's hair With a creeping dread Eve watches the bodies mount & realises the key
- the killer is counting down the twelve days to Christmas & there is only one connection The victims had been using the same dating service Eve enters a dark world where searching for The One is fraught with terror leaving her racing to find the murderer as things get much too close to home ' Another great read another best seller' Huddersfield Daily Examiner Book Seven in the New York Times number one bestselling series