Holly Blues by Susan Wittig Albert (A China Bayles mystery #18). 288 pp.
China Bayles is a former defense attorney turned entrepreneur, married to a former cop turned college professor and P.I. In this installment her husband's flaky ex shows up needing help, and China agrees to let Sally stay--it's close to Christmas, and this way Sally can see her son...except that someone seems to be stalking Sally, and the story she tells China keeps changing, and it all might be related to the murder of Sally parent's over a decade ago. This series has gotten a little, well, complacent; when it started China was adjusting from her big-city, fast-paced lawyer life to a slower, smaller town where she runs an herb shop, and that lent an interesting background to whatever mystery was happening. This series is somewhat more realistic than some mysteries, but by book 18 you have to wonder if every person China's ever met is going to have something awful happen to them.
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