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White Elephant

✍ Scribed by Trish Harnetiaux

Publisher
Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Year
2019
Tongue
EN-US
Weight
115 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1501199927

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✦ Synopsis

A crackling Christmas mystery that combines murder and blackmail at a holiday office party, in a mashup reminiscent of Big Little Lies and Clue.
There are only a few rules in a White Elephant gift exchange: Everyone brings a wrapped gift. No name. Numbers are drawn to decide who picks first. You don't want to draw an early number, because anyone who picks after you can steal your gift, and anyone after them can steal their gift, and so on. Gifts don't need to be priceyβ€”and often they're downright tacky.

But things are a little different in Aspen, Colorado, at the office holiday party for the tony real estate firm owned by Dan McCallion and his ex-wife, Ottoline. Each Christmas sparks a contest among the already competitive staff to see who can buy the most coveted gift, the one that will get stolen the most times, the one that will prove just how many more commissions they earned that year than their colleagues. Designer sunglasses, deluxe spa...

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