Review: A good collection
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 4, 2012
One of my favorite Christmas antholagies so far this season.  Though short, I enjoyed the stories and the characters.  The formatting was good with few typos or grammar issues.  "A Dead Man in a Pear Tree" had me laughing, after my initial surprise.  Holly has borrowed heavily to convert the home into a charming inn.  She got a big break when a TV program wanted to feature it.  Just hours before the crew's arrival, a corpse falls out of the Christmas tree.  What is a woman to do?  The antics of her grandparents were rather fun and this was probably my favorite story.  "Seduced by the Season," shows us a lonely American working in a pub in Ireland while attending school.  The little bits of history we learn through her were interesting.  An American agent needs her history expertise to catch an international thief.  As it turns out, they make a good team.  In Webb's "Evidence of Desire," Olivia is either distracted by her attraction to a co-worker and performing far below her norm or someone is out to get her.  It was a fun little mystery.  In "Season of Wonder," Allison believed in the sanctity of her marriage vows and tried to hang in there, but that really isn't possible when a less-then-perfect child is born to a man to whom perfection is everything.  So Allison moves her daughter to a cabin of her childhood in order to heal together before Allison begins a new job.  An old friend forces Allison to re-evaluate whether she is providing what her daughter really needs or what she thinks her daughter needs.