Silenced in Sleaufort — Ethel Kouba

Bixie is finding it difficult to get her holiday groove on. She is overworked and surrounded by the jolly courthouse group, buzzed up from sugar and alcohol. As if attendance at a school play and being Santa at the drunken courthouse party is not enough, Bixie continues to be stalked. There are sinister gifts, threatening phone calls and three people resembling Bixie are dead. Thomases are everywhere. This season, staying alive will be present enough.