Hard Candy Christmas: A Talbot & Andrews Investigation

It's Christmas on Stella Maris, and Liz Talbot and her partner Nate Andrews have hung up their PI shingles—at Mamma's insistence. Carolyn Talbot has made it abundantly clear that her daughter and son-in-law's investigative days are behind them.

That is, until someone discovers human remains in the marsh at low tide—bones that have been hidden for thirty-five years.

The victim is Paul Miller, a surfer with a shadowy past who disappeared in 1988 after marrying into the Talbot family. Now, Paul'...