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"Retired botany professor Andrew Basnett thought he would spend a quiet Christmas in Australia with his ex-student Tony Gardiner and Tony's wife Jan, but when Jan's sister if found bludgeoned to death with a hugh lump of crystal--the same way Jan's first husband has been killed--and Jan is missing, Basnett finds himself involved in a murder investigation."

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"When it's Christmastime in Australia (where and when this story is set), but the Ninya, leftover from the ice age, decide it's high time to reglaciate.... Frost and ice at Christmas in Oz?! That will not do!
Only a short description of Christmas and beaches and post-Christmas summer sales, this book has an aboriginal protag who journeys with the old ones and skips all the seasonal festivities to save the continent from a new ice age..."