While his name’s close association to Santa Claus creates excitement for the toy drive, its truth causes other problems. As the days count down, his hair and beard change colour and shape, leaving Noel scrambling as he tries to stop looking like Santa Claus.
But when Troy Bengali, head of the Bengali Foundation, turns up dead, buried under the mound of toys, Noel’s hair colour becomes the least of his problems.
Now Noel must fight to clear his accused associate’s name as he searches for the real killer.
A killer with a list to kill, and checking it twice, drawing no difference between naughty or nice. Leaving only death behind.
Mystery with a dash of fantasy, Noel Kringle mixes Christmas, and sleuthing, in a tale of magic and suspense.
Rebecca M. Senese weaves words of horror, mystery, contemporary fantasy, and science fiction in Toronto, Ontario. She is the author of the contemporary fantasy series, the Noel Kringle Chronicles featuring the son of Santa Claus working as a private detective in Toronto. She garnered an Honorable Mention in “The Year’s Best Science Fiction” and has been nominated for numerous Aurora Awards. Her work has appeared in Bitter Mountain Moonlight: A Cave Creek Anthology, Promise in the Gold: A Cave Creek Anthology, Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Home for the Howlidays, Unmasked: Tales of Risk and Revelation, the Obsessions Anthology, Fiction River: Superpowers, Fiction River: Visions of the Apocalypse, Fiction River: Sparks, Fiction River: Recycled Pulp, Tesseracts 16: Parnassus Unbound, Ride the Moon, Tesseracts 15: A Case of Quite Curious Tales, TransVersions, and Storyteller, amongst others. Find her at https://www.RebeccaSenese.com