Six Geese A-Slaying by Donna Andrews

Oh, how I love Donna Andrews mysteries. This one came at the right time and hit just the right note with me. A Holiday Parade - PC - no Christmas Parade, this Parade will include the Twelve Days of Christmas, A Christmas Carol, elephants for the Dwali aspect and camels for the Three Wise men. Meg Langslow has agreed to organize the annual parade to help her husband. His chairman of his college tenure committee was the person asking and Meg couldn't say no. The parade starts at her home and goes to the campus where Santa will distribute gifts to the children. Trouble is, Santa is killed and it looks as if one of the Six Geese was the one who did the deed. Meg has to save the parade, protect the children, find a new Santa and find the killer - all of this with a major snow storm and power outage.