When Larry Jaeger, the owner of the Crazy Elf Christmas Tree Lot, is murdered, bakery owner Hannah Swenson, during the busiest time of the year, must sift through a wealth of suspects before a murderous Scrooge strikes again.

When their former foster sister, a potential candidate for Sociopaths Anonymous, is found dead, Aggie Sloan-Wilcox, along with her minister husband, must clear her sister's name by finding a killer who obviously does not believe in the sixth commandment.