Let's Make It Merry Christmas

by R. L. Anderson

Overview

Dakota Ranch Park is going PC this year, turning its popular annual Christmas On The Ranch festival into a generic Winter Holidays event. All traces of Christmas are being banished from the festivities. Christmas trees, Nativity scenes, caroling--all gone. Even Santa Claus is getting the boot, displaced from his North Pole throne by Global Claws, a silly character in a polar bear suit whose main purpose in life, it seems, is to teach children all about the evils of global warming and indoctrinate them in pagan Earth worship. A group of disgruntled volunteers walk away, vowing to hold their own Christmas festival to restore all the cherished traditions of Christmas to the North Dakota prairies. But--as the Official Sakakawea County, North Dakota Christmas Festival Committee gears into action, a mysterious saboteur lurking in the shadows pops up at every step of the way, threatening to wreck it all. Is it someone from the Ranch Park, trying to thwart the competition? Or is there a more sinister motive involved? And more importantly, can North Dakota's amateur detective Will Nickerson find the culprit and get to the bottom of it in time to save Christmas In New Oslo? Let's Make it Merry Christmas is a light and breezy Christmastime mystery that will put a smile on your face. It will make you laugh--and maybe groan a bit, too, at the occasional excursion into the corny. It will not make you cry, however. This is not your usual Christmas tearjerker. So, lose that handkerchief. You won't need it. And, if you're reading it at Christmastime, have the Merriest Merry Christmas ever! P. S. If you haven't yet read the previous Will Nickerson Mysteries, don't worry. Each story is written in 'stand-alone' style, so each, including Let's Make It Merry Christmas, may be enjoyed without having read the others.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148769019
Publisher:	Rolland Anderson
Publication date:	09/14/2013
Series:	Will Nickerson Mysteries , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	242
File size:	479 KB

About the Author

Currently living in his home state of Ohio, R. L. Anderson has spent considerable time in the western prairie states, including having owned a North Dakota cattle ranch, which inspired his first novel, Ranch Park (2010), the debut of the Will Nickerson Mysteries series. He is also intimately familiar with the northern Pennsylvania country, which was his father's boyhood home, which inspired the setting for his second novel, It's A Place For Trees (2011). His enthusiasm for North Dakota comes out once again in the third installment of the series, Viking It Is (2012), as well as this, his fourth novel, Let's Make It Merry Christmas. The author plans to get back into cattle ranching, and furthering his writing career with more novels in the idea stage. He enjoys hiking, cycling, swimming, sailing, skiing, foreign language studies, gourmet cooking, photography and travel, having visited six European countries, plus Australia and New Zealand, and having traveled extensively in the US and Canada.