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Jemima’s plans for Christmas involve a road trip to Wisconsin and resuscitation of a defunct romance. The ancient alligator suitcase she’s delivering for her grandmother requires only a minor detour. But then Jemima hits a patch of black ice on an unfamiliar Wisconsin road and collides with a telephone pole.
She wakes up in the hospital, to discover her overnight stay includes handcuffs and suspicion of smuggling illegal contraband...all because of the pesky antique alligator case. But that isn't the end of Jemima's Christmas detour.
When the arresting officer’s police station almost burns down, and then her elderly friend is attacked, and then thieves break in, the wretched suitcase is at the root of all chaos.
Her reputation, her winter coat and her romantic hopes are in tatters. Now even her life is threatened. It’s all the alligator case’s fault...Or is it?
Anita Klumpers has a knack for drawing a reader into her story. So when Jemma wakes up in a hospital bed, handcuffed to the bedrail, I could not stop reading. Jemma’s car went into a ditch during a snowstorm, but in her car was a suitcase covered with alligator skin in which there were rare illegal orchids. Her grandmother asked her to drop them off to a buyer in northern Wisconsin since Jemma was on her way to reconcile with her former boyfriend in that area. Instead, Jemma is stuck in Cadwallader with a non-working vehicle, no money, no ID, not even shoes. However, the police chief of the small town, Elihu, buys her shoes. In fact, Elihu buys a meal for her, too. Jemma’s grandmother comes to her aid as well as a family friend who originally had that alligator case in his attic. Someone tries to take the case away from the family friend by force. As the story moves along, it turns out that not everyone is entirely truthful. This is an engaging mystery with interesting characters and
