4.0 out of 5 stars
A Christmas Mystery, October 28, 2001
This review is from: Joy to the World (Paperback)
JOY TO THE WORLD? by Deborah Milton is a leisurely story about the everyday life of a mother of three boys who just happens to have a penchant for trouble. Who but Delaney Roberts would find a newborn in her car when she returns home after delivering charity Christmas packages?
The bane of Detective Johnson's career, Delaney is intent on learning where the child came from. She does her own sleuthing in spite of and occasionally with the help of her husband, her police officer nephew, her neighbor and her own small boys. And then Delaney notices a teenage girl hanging around and follows her. That's when she finds a several-days-dead woman in an apartment. Delaney takes the teenager, Angela, home with her also and petitions Social Services to allow her to keep Angela and the baby girl she names Joy, at least until Joy's parents are found.
A fire bombing, being forced off the highway and two kidnappings pick up the pace of an otherwise tedious holiday season. Not only is she looking for Joy's parents, but now Delaney's determined to find out why and by whom their lives are being threatened.
JOY TO THE WORLD? is light reading with an unusual plot.
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