A Christmas Mystery (A Short Story) By A.L. Jambor

Genre – Fiction

Category – Mystery/Ghost/Holiday-Christmas/Short Story

Pages – 66

Publication Info – November 25, 2013

Format – Digital

Rating – 📙📙📙📙

If you’re looking for a quick, quaint, charming little holiday mystery read for an afternoon or evening around the fire, or on a your daily commute, you could not go wrong with A Christmas Mystery (A Short Story)  by A. L. Jambor.  I snatched a free digital copy of this little gem off of Amazon and was quite pleased and entertained with the story. It’s a simple story with a lovely message and by the way it has a ghost…did I mention it has a ghost and a potential hidden treasure and lots of surprises.  My only negative comment is that this really could have been a much longer story and the past history at the end really could have been woven into the front text. This is my first read by A.L. Jambor, and I look forward to reading another of her stories in the future.

Synopsis (from the back cover): Hank and Josie own a small nursery in Mays Landing, New Jersey. They have three kids and a house with a mortgage. Josie has worked hard making and selling wreaths to make money for Christmas presents. Two days before Christmas, while she is collecting pine cones for her wreaths, she finds a woman named Helen lying in the woods behind her house. She is bruised and beaten, but won’t let Josie call for help. Helen lets Josie take her inside her house where Helen meets Josie’s husband, Hank, and their daughter, Mabel. Josie notices Helen’s strange, old-fashioned clothes and wonders where she came from. While talking about her son, Billy, Helen suddenly disappears.

Was Helen a ghost? As Josie begins to investigate, she discovers that Helen was a real person. In fact, she was Josie’s great-grandmother, a woman who abandoned her young son and her husband to become a chorus girl in Atlantic City. But is the family history regarding Helen true, or a story concocted by her husband to cover her murder?

When Josie receives a foreclosure notice and realizes they are about to lose their house, it’s just the beginning of a bad Christmas Eve. When circumstances threaten to ruin their Christmas, Josie and Hank discover that the old abandoned house across the street may hold the key to the mystery surrounding Helen’s appearance, and to finding the money they need to save their family’s home.

This ebook contains an excerpt from A.L. Jambor’s My First Christmas starring Libby the Psychic Dog.

About the author:  A.L. Jambor lives in Florida with her husband, Hans. Amy began writing at the tender age of fifty-eight when she was inspired by a photo of her granddaughter. The result was But the Children Survived, an apocalyptic story about how a pharmaceutical company’s greed led to the destruction of North America. From there, Amy began writing fantasy mysteries that incorporated both her love of puzzles and her humor. Nick Dandino and Lord Percival Plep are two of her protagonists – the first a PI in heaven, the second an English lord reincarnated as a pudgy terrier named Libby. She has also written an historical time travel series and a dark crime thriller.

Other work by A.L. Jambor: Kevin Chandler and the Case of the Missing Dog, The Christmas Cottage, A Lethal Legacy: A Victorian Mystery, The Room in Grandma’s House (A Fantasy Short Story), When Daisy Disappeared, The House on the Shore (A Paranormal Mystery Short Story), Libby the Psychic Dog, Mystery in the Mansion (Libby the Psychic Dog, Book 2), Quandary on the Quay (Libby the Psychic Dog, Book 3), The Nefarious Neighbor (Libby the Psychic Dog, Book 4), The Cat’s Confession (Libby the Psychic Dog, Book 5), The Body in the Bungalow: A Supernatural Mystery Short (A Divine Detective Agency Mystery Book 1), The Devious Dame (A Divine Detective Agency Mystery Book 2), The Kid at the Candy Counter (The Divine Detective Agency  Mystery Book 3), What She Deserved (A Paranormal Mystery), Where’s Audrey?, The Best Dreams (The Legend of Truelock Manor), Dangerous Stranger, But the Children Survived, A Tender Heart (The Story of Mary Edwards)  and Don’t Look Back (The Story of Hannah Dawes.