9 Nutcrackers Whistling — Irene Radford

The Whistling River Lodge has rebounded from Covid 19 closures. Christmas is coming and very pregnant Glenna McClain and her crew are hosting a ballet Master Class of adolescents and teens that will culminate in a performance of The Nutcracker Suite. Then the organizer of the event is brutally murdered and hidden in a snowbank. International smuggling and assassination conspiracies surround the man. And then there is the matter of the ballet master claiming to be the legitimate heir to the monarchy of Russia. He has numerous supporters and more opponents. The FBI is called in, the dogs poke their noses into everything, and decorative nutcrackers wander. Can the intrepid detectives solve the crime before the performance? Can Glenna watch the all-important performance before she goes into labor?