In the latest Harley & Davidson mystery, there’s a new meaning to the twelve days of Christmas. Hank and Agatha stumble upon a serial killer who’s rewriting Santa Claus’s naughty and nice list by knocking off big guys in red suits with beards.Hank isn’t sure he believes this is a serial killer. Despite Agatha’s insistence, he knows serial killers aren’t as common as she’d like them to be for … to be for her research. Maybe deadline enthusiasm is making Agatha see this as more than it is.
But Agatha knows her way around bodies, and the dead Santa’s have too much in common not to be connected. Her real-world training as a forensic anthropologist pays off as she matches wits with law enforcement’s best, and a deviant killer’s worst.
BOOKS IN THE SERIES
Book 1 – The Farmer’s Slaughter
Book 2 – A Tisket A Casket
Book 3 – I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus
Book 4 – Get Your Murder Running
Book 5 – Deceased and Desist
Book 6 – Malice In Wonderland
Book 7 – Tequila Mockingbird
Book 8 – Gone With the Sin
Book 9 – Grime and Punishment
Book 10 – Blazing Rattles
Book 11 – A Salt and Battery
Book 12 – Curl Up And Dye
Book 13 – First Comes Death, Then Comes Marriage
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I started the series by the husband and wife team a week ago. First one,”The Farmer’s Slaughter” introduces you to the small town and Agatha.
Agatha is in her late thirties, lives in the security tight home she grew up in. And is a very wealthy writer under an alias and hiding out.
Hammering Hank is a retired cop trying to find enjoyment but going slightly nuts. You’ll see him just down from Agatha’s home dressed casual but with black socks and sandals.
In book two and three, Aggie as Hank calls her are looking into a rash of dead men that played Santa in malls and dept. stores.
These are quick cozy reads with wit, laugh out loud moments, and crimes needing resolution. You’ll see that Aggie and Hank are both carrying secrets and burdens of their pasts.
For the reader, the crimes are introduced right away except book one when the duo meet involving a garden hose and antics ensue. For all the light humor, there are dark moments and some scares but you can enjoy these before bed! Books aren’t very long but love how the relationship gradually changes over time and book four “Get Your Motor Running” was the most in depth on the fears of being a cop, retired or not, and the anxiety of trying to date in a town that lives for gossip!
With everyone exhausted from the news this summer, pick up at least the first four and just relax in a Texas small town where Hank and Aggie are eating at the diner and discussing death. 4.4 stars
In this third book in the series we get more information on one of our MCs, Hank. Through the investigations of a series of murders of Santas we find out about Hank’s wife. There isn’t a lot of mystery to the killings as the killer is taunting them and Hank knows who it is, they just can’t get the person.
There are a lot of plot holes in this one and a lot that’s missing. There is a gaping hole related to the killer and how they have the knowledge they do, are able to do what they do, and are even free to do so. The crime seems secondary to the character development and moving the relationship between the MCs forward. Since I want to know more about the MCs I’m ok with that except for the gaping holes about the villain. That just seems lazy.
A Santa serial killer?!?!? The killer is one sick, twisted individual and she seems to have a thing for Hank. It looks like a tragedy from Hank’s past is coming back to haunt him and this killer is going to enjoy the tease!
Hank and Aggie are going from strength to strength, especially as now they have a little authority to back them up when they get in a sticky situation! But Hank’s toe-dip into romance is not going well and Aggie may even be a feeling a little bit of the green-eyed monster!