Getting in the holiday spirit

Every year Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark, join forces to write a little Christmas novel. The same characters are thrown into a new adventure and it becomes a fun, quick read. This year it's "Dashing Through the Snow." The characters are an older couple who won the lottery after spending most of their life doing house cleaning for other people. A private detective married to a homicide cop. The parents of the P.I., mother a famous author and father a mortician. This time they're headed to New England where a group of employees from a local grocery store have won the lottery. It's usually 5 of them that play but this time one of them had dropped out of the group to save his dollar. That was the catalyst that got the whole adventure rolling. Reading this was like reading a golden book for adults. Fast and fun.