I enjoyed this book as Christmas is my favorite holiday. Along, with the main character's name being Merry, it made an excellent combination. I enjoyed the characters and look forward to seeing them in future books.

However, I did not really feel the "mystery" of the book as Merry really did not do any "detective" work to figure out the murderer. It just fell into her lap.

Though, I gave this a lower than usual rating, I hope to read other additions to this series.