A Merry Little Murder: A Lindy Haggerty Mystery

Shelley Freydont. Kensington Publishing Corporation, $22 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-7582-0126-3

The international ballroom dancing competition in Atlantic City at Christmas provides the backdrop for Shelley Freydont's A Merry Little Murder: A Lindy Haggerty Mystery, the fifth glittering entry in the series (after 2002's Halloween Murder). A search for a couple to play Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in a feature film only complicates a plot fraught with jealousy, scandals and murder.

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