Death of a Neighborhood Scrooge - Laura Levine

Scotty Parker is a former child star who once played Tiny Tim, but now he's grown up into the role of neighbourhood Scrooge. He cuts the wires on his neighbours' Christmas lights and tells local kids that Santa had a stroke. And his miserly, bah-humbug attitude lasts year-rounda fact known all too well by his current wife, his ex-wife, his maid, and many more. Scotty thinks he can stage a comeback with the screenplay he's working on (The Return of Tiny Tim: Vengeance Is Mine!), and Jaine's been reluctantly helping him edit it. So when Scotty is bludgeoned with a frozen chocolate yule log and the police start making a list of suspects and checking it twice, Jaine's name is unfortunately included. True, she's been under some stress, with Lance trying to set her up on dates and her fickle feline taking a sudden liking to someone elsebut she's not guilty of murder. Now she just has to prove it . . .