Lesley A. Diehl

Angela Baker should be thrilled at having given birth to her third baby, but her mother always finds a way of spoiling the moment. This time Mom takes a cruise specializing in plastic surgery and ends up overboard, murdered and leaving Angela to identify the body. But is it Mom? Angela isn't certain but, then again...who would be? The woman has become unrecognizable as a result of too many little "procedures." Pushed by a detective determined to close the book on the murder, Angela does ... more info>>

It's always difficult to have a happy Thanksgiving the year after a loved one dies. It's especially hard when you have to sit at the same table as the murderer...and a poor turkey substitute. This story appears in the Thanksgiving mystery anthology THE KILLER WORE CRANBERRY.