![]() ![]() “Bird manages to create more than enough suspense to keep the reader turning pages to find out what happens.” -Charles Salzberg, The Big Thrill Magazine “Let It Snow is an enjoyable fireside treat, though it certainly isn’t sanitised, it’s a warming police procedural for any point in the winter.” -Mal McEwan, Crime Fiction Lover Highly recommended, even for those who don’t usually dig police procedurals.” -Chris Rhatigan, Publisher, All Due Respect Books Bird even manages to make one of the most hated characters in fiction (or life-the cop killer-engaging and interesting. They’re ordinary people in all their glory and folly. “You’ll want to spend time with the characters in this book. It’s going to be one hell of a Christmas. If that wasn’t bad enough, record snowfall has created chaos within the police department. It’s the perfect inside job and the owners of the store know exactly which officer they want on the case, only the officer doesn’t feel quite the same way. In the centre of town, the biggest store in the city is robbed by a mannequin. Gangland boss Johnny Yen is only too happy to help, but only if he can get a little something in return. With no evidence trail and a broken heart, DS Sue Nolan turns to an old flame, a man who always has his ear to the ground. Unfortunately it’s a big city and the current crime wave has thrown them a couple of curve balls to pile on the pressure.Īt the zoo, a rhino is killed for its horn. Whether they’re playing straight or crooked, they may not have long before the killer strikes again. ![]() Some are happy to play it by the book, others don’t give a damn whether the rules are smashed to pieces. The woman, who Addie thought was crazy, had told Addie she was her Christmas angel.Police Constable Ernie Shavers is murdered while trying to save the life of a suicidal teenager and everyone wants a piece of the killer. Addie tracked down the person who purchased the pig and discovered an elderly lady whom she had waited on earlier that day at Starbucks. At the pet store, Addie learned Nathan had accidentally already sold the pig. In order to prove she has learned her lesson, Addie went to Pet World to pick up Tegan’s new pet pig, even though Nathan, a boy whom Addie did not like, worked there. In “the patron saint of pigs,” Addie has to learn the hard lesson that everything was not always about her. At the restaurant, however, Tobin realized he was more interested in the Duke than the cheerleaders. Believing he was in the middle of heaven, Keun had shared his good luck with Tobin and invited him to come as well. The cheerleaders had walked from the train to the Waffle House where Tobin’s friend Keun was working. Fourteen cheerleaders on their way to a competition had also been on the train on which Jubilee had been riding. On a Christmas Eve night trek through a blizzard, Tobin noticed the Duke was increasingly frustrated by his references to cheerleaders. In “a cheertastic christmas miracle,” the Duke and Tobin had always been close despite the fact she was a girl and he was a boy. Jubilee never expected the walk from the train to a nearby Waffle House would lead her to a new love. Instead of getting to Florida, however, the train was caught in a blizzard near a town called Gracetown. In “the jubilee express,” the authors do not capitalize chapter titles, when Jubilee’s parents were arrested Christmas Eve for being part of a riot, Jubilee had to take a train to her grandparents’ house in Florida. A bad snowstorm has hit the area changing the landscape and causing the train on which Jubilee, along with fourteen cheerleaders from Pennsylvania are riding. The stories are set in Gracetown beginning Christmas Eve night. Three interconnected love stories in the novel Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories by Maureen Johnson, John Green and Lauren Myracle, combine a blizzard, cheerleaders, broken hearts and girl-crazy guys to result in unlikely Christmas miracles. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Green, John Myracle, Lauren Johnson, Maureen.
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