Holiday In DeathShe smelled it, fresh death. Both metallic and fruity. Easing the door all the way open, she found it It's Christmas time in New York City, but homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas struggles to get into the holiday spirit. Finding a woman strangled to death by a murderous Santa doesn't help. And he's left behind a present: a partridge in a pear tree, pinned to the victim's hair. With a creeping dread, Eve watches the bodies mount and realises the key the