![]() ![]() Both Josh and Lena are, individually, distraught at this event: Josh because with Santa dead, it’s highly dubious there’ll actually be a Christmas, and Lena because she’s inadvertently killed the man she long ago stopped loving. The death is witnessed only by one other individual, seven-year-old Josh Barker. In this particular encounter, Dale manages to slip and impale himself on the upraised blade of Lena’s shovel. ![]() ![]() The domestic is broken up by local constable Theo Crowe, but an hour later Lena and Dale are at it again: still in Santa garb, he’s challenging her over the theft of some of his (many) Christmas trees, which she has been selling for charity. In the small Californian coastal town of Pine Cove, in the week before Xmas, 40-something divorcee Lena Marquez has an argument with her Santa-suit-clad ex, Dale Pearson, that comes to blows. If you haven’t read any of Moore’s previous books, take it from me, he is – he can be – one seriously funny guy. (Review first published on the ASIM website, December 2007)Ĭhristopher Moore’s Stupidest Angel is subtitled ‘A Heart-Warming Tale of Christmas Terror’, and that’s a reasonably apt description. ![]()
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