A Carol in the Dark — Cathleen Jordan

T'WAS THE MURDER BEFORE CHRISTMAS...

Christmas was coming to the South Dakota campus of Crosscreek U. But instead of finding a partridge in his pear tree, history professor Will Gray was about to find himself involved in a mystery--and a murder or two.

The cryptic will of a wealthy college benefactor led to a hidden fortune--the kind of money people would die for. And when an easygoing English teacher turned up frozen stiff, Gray suspected someone already had. The link between the will and the kill was a mysterious society--The Close Company of Perfect Strangers. But making the right connection could turn Gray's white Christmas bloody red....