Three years ago fourteen-year-old Faith McKay was found dead of a drug overdose and with an odd tattoo on her chest. The death was ruled as accidental, but Mick Christmas, the detective who worked the case, believes it was murder. Now resigned from police work, Mick is content to spend his days at the small dairy farm he bought tinkering on an old Chevy, but the past won't let him alone. Faith's mother, Carly McKay, a woman he has never forgotten, is being stalked. A local socialite pleads for Mick's help in rescuing her sister from the same New Age cult with which Faith was involved. To further complicate matters, Mick's troubled niece is coming to stay with him at the farm. Danger lurks at every corner as Mick searches to find find an unknown killer bent on killing again.
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Pam Chillemi Jaeger is a former social worker whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including Best of the Midwest, Dark Region's Years Best Fantastic Fiction, Volume II, Terminal Fright, Flesh & Blood, and Daughters of Nyx, as well as the Bram Stoker nominated essay compilation, Personal Demons. She received an Honorable Mention in St. Martin's Press Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Volume VII. After residing in the heart of PA Dutch Country for most of their lives, Pam and her husband, son and two dogs now live in North Carolina. This is her first novel.
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Creepy Fun!,
This review is from: The First Day Of Christmas: Deadly Tattoo (Paperback)
Having just finished "The First Day of Christmas:Deadly Tattoo" I find myself sad and bored. NOT with the book, but with the fact that I have finished it! It's a page turning mystery that you hate to put down. Just the sort of thing you want to curl up some evening in a favorite cozy spot and read and read and read! You tell yourself "oh, I'll just read a few more pages and go to sleep and at 2:00am, you're still saying JUST A FEW MORE PAGES".
Pam Chillemi~Jaeger has a story telling talent that grabs you in the first 10 pages and keeps you wanting to go further. The plot and characters develope quick and you get to know and understand them and walk along beside them through out the book. There are a couple little side bar characters that are just as interesting without taking away from the main plot or making it 'to busy'. Makes one hope the first day of 'Christmas' ( a play on words as the detectives name is Christmas) will go into perhaps 12 days of Christmas/books? Would be fun if Ms. Chillemi~Jaeger continues these adventures. It is one of those books you finish unhappily because you don't want it to end. Creapy and fun!
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when the next book?,
By Pat Harper (CLEARFIELD, PA, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The First Day Of Christmas: Deadly Tattoo (Paperback)
Fell in love with this books' main charactor. Good work! Good read! I am waiting for the next installment. Keep writing!
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Quite the Christmas Present!,
By Jeffrey Thomas (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The First Day Of Christmas: Deadly Tattoo (Paperback)
I've been a fan of Pamela Chillemi-Jaeger's work since I first encountered it in indie press horror zines back in the 90's. It's often characterized by dark, disturbing scenarios but compassionate, human (if troubled) protagonists you can identify with and want to root for. THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS: DEADLY TATTOO is no exception, and here Chillemi-Jaeger proves as adept with crime/detective fiction as she is with horror. This novel has all the right stuff for fans of the genre: a twisted dark plot, an enigmatic cast of characters, and most importantly a likable sleuth hero whom we want to see tackle further cases in the future. And I'm happy to have learned that there will indeed be a second adventure for Mick Christmas coming down the road from publisher Terradan Works. Hurrah! Why, I feel like a little kid on Christmas Eve.
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Deadly Tattoo, The First Day of Christmas, Pamela Chillemi Jaeger, Jimmy Bradley, Jenny Simms, Addie Simms, Jeremiah Grant, Kay Weigand, Eden Woon, Mick Christmas, Robert Styles, Ben Pulaski, Sacred Heart, Les Moonvey, Glenda Richardson, Detective Christmas, Amber Holloway, Michaela Rice, Uncle Mick, Penn State, Miss Simms, Deborah Styles, Thank God, Luther's Corners, James Nazar Browse Sample Pages:
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