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    "annotation": "<p><span>Hosting an award-winning novelist is quite a Christmas coup for the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straw Society. But when he&rsquo;s murdered in Lizzie Turner&rsquo;s house, she&rsquo;s got a holiday homicide on her hands &hellip;</span><br /><span>For their very first guest author event, most of the book club members can&rsquo;t wait to pull out all the stops in Southern hospitality. But for Lizzie, Derek Alton is nothing but trouble&mdash;from his massive ego to his smarmy moves. When he&rsquo;s found murdered in her living room, it seems someone decided that this womanizing writer would be better off dead than read.</span><br /><span>After suspicion falls on Lizzie&rsquo;s friend, she and her fellow book club members discover that Derek wasn&rsquo;t who he pretended to be. Cracking this case means going up against Lizzie&rsquo;s boyfriend, police chief Mark Dreyfus, and unearthing a novel&rsquo;s worth of nasty secrets. And as they get closer to uncovering Derek&rsquo;s scandalous final manuscript, someone hiding in plain sight is out to write finis to Lizzie&rsquo;s sleuthing for good&hellip;</span></p>",
    "description": "<p><span>Hosting an award-winning novelist is quite a Christmas coup for the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straw Society. But when he&rsquo;s murdered in Lizzie Turner&rsquo;s house, she&rsquo;s got a holiday homicide on her hands &hellip;<br /></span><br /><span>For their very first guest author event, most of the book club members can&rsquo;t wait to pull out all the stops in Southern hospitality. But for Lizzie, Derek Alton is nothing but trouble&mdash;from his massive ego to his smarmy moves. When he&rsquo;s found murdered in her living room, it seems someone decided that this womanizing writer would be better off dead than read.<br /></span><br /><span>After suspicion falls on Lizzie&rsquo;s friend, she and her fellow book club members discover that Derek wasn&rsquo;t who he pretended to be. Cracking this case means going up against Lizzie&rsquo;s boyfriend, police chief Mark Dreyfus, and unearthing a novel&rsquo;s worth of nasty secrets. And as they get closer to uncovering Derek&rsquo;s scandalous final manuscript, someone hiding in plain sight is out to write finis to Lizzie&rsquo;s sleuthing for good&hellip;</span></p>",
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