Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everybody! Here’s Alastair Sim, my favorite Scrooge, in an angsty moment. His ascent to merriness comes later.

Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. QB of the varsity football team. Passing grades in all his classes. Dating the hottest—and smartest—girl at school. Summer job paying more than minimum wage. Things in Cody's world seem to be going pretty well. Until, that is, his girlfriend, Clea, is sent off to boarding school across the country, and a torn ACL ends his high school football career. But bad things come in threes—or in Cody's case, sixes and twelves—and the worst is yet to come.

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