Double Cross

Cactus for Christmas? Forensic psychologist Gen Ziegler needs to move from Tucson to Pennsylvania during the winter semester break. She and her twin sister, Sara, decide to use the move as an excuse for a much-needed vacation. They plan to drive across the country, seeing the sights while getting reacquainted after years of not speaking to each other. Still, jumping back into a family relationship isn't easy. To make matters worse, they're stranded in a tiny West Texas town only four days before Christmas. Sure, the scenery's gorgeous, the Tex-Mex food is delicious, and the residents are friendly enough, but the town seems filled with secrets . . . and a killer's on the loose.

ELENA SANTANGELO is the author of the Possessed Mystery Series, which begins with Agatha Award finalist By Blood Possessed, and features sleuth Pat Montella, a corporate layoff victim turned ghostbuster. Elena’s Twin Mystery Series features forensic psychologist Gen Ziegler and her identical twin sister, Sara, both college professors in Pennsylvania’s Schwenkfelder region. You can read her short mysteries and ghost stories in Short Cuts to Mayhem. Her forays into non-fiction includes Dame Agatha’s Shorts: An Agatha Christie Short Story Companion won the Agatha for Best Nonfiction, and was nominated for Anthony and Macavity Awards, and Yesterday, Today and Forever: The World War II Journal of Joseph B. Chicco. Visit her at www.elenasantangelo.com.