Teaser Tuesday 16: Mistletoe Murder

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share at least two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teaser!

The holidays and Christmas Reading Challenge may be past, but I thought I'd knock one more Christmas-themed book from the TBR pile anyway. Besides, everything I have lined up for this month is thick and heavy, and I wanted something a bit slimmer and lighter for this week. So, I picked up a mystery by Leslie Meier, Mistletoe Murder. This one has actually only been in the TBR pile a year. Not too far into it yet, but as it is first in a fairly popular series, I am hoping it does not disappoint.

As the following four sentences come early in the book and set up the premise, they are not a spoiler. Lucy Stone works the late shift for a local mail order catalog company. Orders being slow one night and not wanting to get hopped up on caffeine so late, Lucy steps outside for a five minute break to try to wake herself up, only to make an eerie discovery...

As she drew closer to the row of parked cars, the noise of the humming engine grew louder. It came, she realized, from Sam Miller's BMW. The navy blue sedan with the SAM-I-AM vanity plates was covered with snow just like all the other cars. The only difference was that the engine was running and a black rubber hose neatly capped one of the twin exhaust pipes and snaked around the car to the driver's window.