Christmas in Tranquility, New Jersey, means togetherness for the Italian-American Ferrara family--and an unexpected reunion for Alberta Scaglione.
Like his series protagonist, Jinx Ferrara, he\'s from a large Italian-American family and grew up in New Jersey, where he currently resides..
A graduate of New York University, he has studied at Playwrights Horizons and Gotham Writers Workshop.
Griffo is the award-winning author of the Ferrara Family Mysteries, several screenplays, and a number of YA novels written under the name Michael Griffo.
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And with more than one family member\'s future at stake, Alberta and Lisa Marie will have to put their past behind them and work together, or it\'ll be a blue, blue Christmas...
It seems Sergio\'s former squeeze had some shady secrets.
The bad news: he\'s a prime suspect for murder.
The good news is they\'ve found Sergio.
Lisa Marie screams that it\'s Natalie--and screams again when she sees a man emerge from behind some Christmas trees.
But the night takes a chilling turn when a snowman decoration splits open, revealing a body.
Maybe Alberta and her crime-reporting partner-in-sleuthing granddaughter, Jinx, can track him down before Christmas? After some fruitless searching, the Ferraras take a break to attend the Mistletoe Ball, a fundraiser for the local hospital.
Her son, Alberta\'s twenty-one-year-old grandson, Sergio, hasn\'t been heard from in six months, shortly after taking up with a woman named Natalie.
Alberta is delighted that her estranged daughter has arrived in Tranquility, even if Lisa Marie has an ulterior motive.
But someone has Murder on their holiday wish list...
Christmas in Tranquility, New Jersey, means togetherness for the Italian-American Ferrara family--and an unexpected reunion for Alberta Scaglione
