In Halloween Night Murder by Leslie Meier, Lucy Stone is surprised by a lone late-night trick-or-treater at her home. The next morning, she's heartbroken to learn that the teenager died in a hit-and-run just minutes after she gave him the last of her candy supply. In Death of a Halloween Night Stalker by Lee Hollis, bad weather has stranded Hayley Powell and her friends in rural Maine, but the real fright is yet to come. In Mrs. Claus and the Wily Witch by Liz Ireland, when Pumblechook the snowman suffers a mysterious fate and an elf is felled by caramels, Mrs. Claus must determine if sorcery has invaded Santaland.