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The Santa Slaughter - A Very Merry Murder Mystery

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Time 1h 41m

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My name is Meredith Gray, but I go by "Merry", and usually I love the holidays...but not this year.

With divorce papers to sign and bills to pay, I'll take whatever job I can get this close to Christmas - even if that means dressing up as an elf for my town's annual Christmas Market.

But when our Santa - former Silver Brook "Man of the Year" Bill Barraclough is found bludgeoned to death I'm not going to stand by and let a murderer ruin Christmas...All Rights Reserved

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