East End Christmas Cracker · A Festive Thriller With Gripping Twists

**Tough East Ender Babs is back in a standalone novella**

**You can’t choose your family. Especially at Christmas**

It’s all jingles but no bells this year as East End mum **Babs

Miller ** tries to find somewhere to stage one of her legendary

Christmas parties. But no one’s hiring to Babs this festive season.

Her shindig’s reputation for all-round mayhem has preceded her.

There’s another problem: no one wants Babs’ aging relative,

the notorious Aunt Ruddy, on their premises. She could start

a fight on a desert island.

But Aunt Ruddy won’t be going anywhere this Christmas

because she’s laid up in hospital. Babs begins to suspect that

Ruddy owns something valuable that’s in danger of being stolen.

Babs soon fears the light-fingered thief might be closer to home

than she thinks.

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