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    Fatal Fruitcake: A Christmas Short Story
    Fatal Fruitcake: A Christmas Short Story
    Fatal Fruitcake: A Christmas Short Story
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    Fatal Fruitcake: A Christmas Short Story

    By Mary Kay Andrews

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    Atlanta cleaning lady/private detective Callahan Garrity, the protagonist of the author's eight critically acclaimed mysteries, returns from a long hiatus in this short story to track down the source of a killer fruitcake--and in the process discovers that some forms of Christmas spirit really can be lethal.

    Also included with this short story is Mary Kay Andrews' personal recipe for a not-so-fatal fruitcake.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMary Kay Andrews
    Release dateNov 8, 2012
    ISBN9781301600663
    Fatal Fruitcake: A Christmas Short Story
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    Mary Kay Andrews

    Mary Kay Andrews is the New York Times bestselling author of 30 novels and The Beach House Cookbook. A former reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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      Fatal Fruitcake - Mary Kay Andrews

      Fatal Fruitcake

      A Callahan Garrity Christmas Short Story

      by Mary Kay Andrews

      writing as Kathy Hogan Trocheck

      Fatal Fruitcake

      Mary Kay Andrews, writing as Kathy Hogan Trocheck

      Copyright © 1997 by Kathy Hogan Trocheck

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      Fatal Fruitcake

      There were 10 strands of Christmas lights, all of them hopelessly tangled into one big UL-approved snarl. Which idiot put these lights away last year? I demanded.

      Only six shopping days left till the big day, and as always, I felt overwhelmed with stress and anxiety. The ceaseless jangle of the radio, playing an endless stream of hokey Christmas songs made my nerves raw, and my mother’s mindless humming didn’t help either. Can’t you cut that noise off?

      Edna, my mother, looked up from her job, which was to hack away at the base of the tree with a dull butcher knife until the trunk fit into her rusted 40-year-old Christmas-tree stand.

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