Title: The Twelve Murders of Christmas
Subtitle: A Toni Day Mystery
Author: Jane Bennett Munro
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 978-1953397
Genre: Fiction / Mystery
Pages: 338
Synopsis
Pathologist Toni Day and her husband, Hal, are mystified when she starts receiving grisly Christmas cards depicting murders, each accompanied by a twisted verse from The Twelve Days of Christmas, and she and her partners are suddenly inundated with autopsies on the corresponding bodies. The victims are members of a jury that convicted Toni’s old boyfriend Robbie of kidnapping and sent him to prison. Robbie is now out on parole and is presumably systematically killing off the jury that put him there, but the true identity of the Jury Killer becomes unclear when another parolee, a pretty female police detective, and a newspaper reporter with an icepick get involved. To complicate matters further, Toni’s parents are visiting for Christmas. Toni teams up with her stepfather Nigel, a retired Scotland Yard chief inspector, to interpret clues and assist the police in a race against time to catch the killer or killers before they wipe out the entire jury and then come after Toni and Hal.
About the Author
Jane Bennett Munro, MD, is a retired pathologist with 42 years of experience, who also served eight years on the Idaho State Board of Medicine. She has published six mysteries in the Toni Day Mystery Series, and this is the seventh. Her previous books are Murder under the Microscope, Too Much Blood, Grievous Bodily Harm, Death by Autopsy, The Body on the Lido Deck, and A Deadly Homecoming. She lives in Twin Falls, Idaho. –This text refers to the paperback edition.
