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Discover the Yule Lads in Chapter One Below!
In Icelandic folklore, thirteen troll brothers known as ‘Yule Lads’ visit for the thirteen nights leading up to Christmas Eve. Children leave their shoes on the windowsills, and the designated Yule Lad for that evening places a gift inside for good behavior. If the child is naughty, he or she gets a rotten potato instead.
If you’ve ever smelled a rotten potato in your pantry, you know the Yule Lads aren’t messing around. At least they don’t eat your flesh like the worst version of Krampus, Santa’s hairy, fanged buddy. Krampus has issues.
Luckily for Icelandic children, the Yule Lads are just weird. Really weird.
There’s Sheep-Cote Clod (Stekkjastaur), who harasses sheep, and Gully Gawk (Giljagaur), who hides in gullies to bother livestock.
Then there’s the kitchen contingent—Stubby (Stúfur), who steals food from pots, Spoon-Licker (Þvörusleikir), who licks unwashed spoons, Skyr-Gobbler (Skyrgámur), who eats all the yogurt, Pot-Scraper (Pottaskefill), who scrapes pots for leftovers, and Bowl-Licker (Askasleikir), who—you guessed it—licks bowls.
Believe it or not, the last six brothers are even stranger. There’s the Door twins (Hurðaskellir)—one who slams doors to wake people like an angry poltergeist, and his brother, who sniffs at entryways, looking for food. Then there is Candle-Beggar (Kertasníkir), who steals candles, Sausage-Swiper (Bjúgnakrækir), who is pretty self-explanatory if not rife with phallic innuendo, and Meat Hook (Kjötkrókur), who sounds terrifying, but who only uses his hook to steal smoked lamb from the rafters.
This delightful group is rounded out by Peeper (Gluggagægir), who peeps into your house, looking for things to steal. He sounds a little creepy, but after hearing about the rest of his dysfunctional family, he doesn’t come as a surprise.
Their mother, Grýla, must be so proud.
Actually, the Yule Lads’ mother probably is proud, because she’s a troll, too, and this sort of behavior is cool by troll standards—especially a couple of pranksters like Grýla and her lazy husband Leppalúði.
It’s safe to say most of the residents of Pineapple Port have never heard about the Yule Lads.
But they will.
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The Girl Who Lost Him: Shee McQueen Mystery Thriller #4 by Amy Vansant - $3.99 (Save $2!) FOR A LIMITED TIME!
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Shee McQueen lives in her father’s hotel for ex-military mercenaries. Life is never easy...and never boring.
Bounty hunter Shee and her second-chance love / ex-Navy SEAL, Mason Connolly, are sent to the middle of Florida to protect the family of a retiring small-town drug lord, only to find the man’s dead wife on her way out on a gurney. When the “accident” feels more like murder and the husband is implicated, Shee and Mason remain to protect the man’s teenage son and daughter, neither of whom has any interest in making their job easier.
When a rival gang’s psychotic son kidnaps their client’s daughter, Mason’s expert extraction skills are put to the test as the danger level in tiny Kinache, Florida notches to the boiling point.
It seems their client has more family secrets than Shee and Mason counted on...
"Think Stephanie Plum goes to Florida. With Jack Reacher. Highly recommended.” — ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Carmen Amato, bestselling author of the Detective Emilia Cruz police series and 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Meanwhile, on the other side of Florida in Miami, Naval Academy graduate and Loggerhead Inn receptionist, Croix, has muscled her way into an FBI-backed art theft case alongside resident con artist, retired Army Captain, Ollie.
Secret family histories and dark obsessions twist both missions until they reach their explosive, gripping conclusions.
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| The Queen's Hive. | |
| The Shady Gator | |
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| Dorothy Penkalski | The Everglades End |
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| Karen | Flagler's Folly |
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Your Moment of Archer
He's always liked to perch on the back of the sofa cushions, but he's been throwing himself on the shelf more and more lately... He especially likes to straddle the cushion right behind Mike, so the poor guy can't lean back. If Mike does lean back and rests his head on Archer, Arch growls. (not mean, just hey you're annoying me, Daddy...). That's his piggy next to him. He carries it around like a teddy bear. He LOVES it and for some reason never destroys it. I got it at Amazon if you'd like to get one for your fur baby!
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A Shot Most Bitter (33rd Street Roastery Cozy Mysteries Book 7) by Summer Prescott
When murder happens…
You can’t just eat popcorn and watch.
A night at the movies soon spells catastrophe – and our intrepid sleuths find themselves closer to the chaos than usual.
Margaret, Rohan, and Paige had just settled themselves into their seats with buckets of buttery popcorn, when a gunshot sounded off like a thunderclap in the theater.
A man plunged to his death and a woman’s scream pierced the darkness. With no one coming forward as a witness, and a bullet that seemed to have vanished, the staff of the Roastery on 33rd find themselves with few leads to pursue.
They think that the tragedy at the movie was the end of things, but soon, they realize they’re in the second act of a case that has struck before… and threatens to strike again.
Like a shot of a coffee most bitter, things seem much more heated than they could ever have anticipated.
Can the sleuths figure out who killed who before the credits roll, once and for all?
A Dead Red Cadillac (The Dead Red Mystery Series, Book 1) by RP Dahlke FREE 10-5 to 10-9 or get it free with Kindle Unlimited
A deeply buried and deadly secret resurface with a drowned Cadillac
When Lalla Bains’ trophy red Caddy is discovered tail-fins up in a local lake, police ask why a widowed piano teacher, who couldn’t possibly see beyond the hood ornament, is found strapped in the driver’s seat.
As Lalla will soon discover, there’s a shocking link between the drowned woman, her beloved father and an escaped felon--all of which will tear apart her comfortable life and bring her family into the cross-hairs of a killer.
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"With its engaging, down-on-her-luck sleuth, homicidal Caddy and a decades-old mystery, R.P. Dahlke’s promising debut, A DEAD RED CADILLAC, will keep you turning those pages and guessing wrong right up to its surprising conclusion.” Kris Neri, Lefty Award-nominated author of REVENGE FOR OLD TIMES’ SAKE
