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�I�m crazy about Laura Levine�s mystery series. Her books are so outrageously funny.� �Joanne Fluke Freelance writer Jaine Austen is feeling festive about spending Christmas house-sitting at a posh Bel Air mansion, accompanied by her friend Lance and her cat, Prozac. But when a grumpy neighbor gets himself iced, she�ll have to find the culprit or she may spend the New Year in jail . . . Scotty Parker is a former child star who once played Tiny Tim, but now he�s grown up into the role of neighborhood Scrooge. He cuts the wires on his neighbors� Christmas lights and tells local kids that Santa had a stroke. And his miserly, bah-humbug attitude lasts year-round�a 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 else�but she�s not guilty of murder. Now she just has to prove it, by using her gift for detection and figuring out who committed this holiday homicide.