The week leading up to Christmas should be fun but when mobileveterinarians Dr Emily Harrison and Dr Maggie Post encounter an angry arachnid as big as a small dog they decide its no fun at all especially as the eightlegged creepycrawly is found guarding a dead bodyWho hated the bullying agent enough to kill her Her boss Edward G Peters the bestselling horror author whose Modus Operandi in his latest book is identical to the crime Or the authors cook who is protecting a shady secret between her boss and the deceased Or the edgy young cleaner whos living a lie the TV guy with a hidden agenda or the scruffy burglar caught breaking into Emu Lodge the day before the murderOnce again the two amateur sleuths find themselves deep in the middle of another baffling mystery However when Maggies daughter gets caught up in the killers sights and Fat Santa threatens to blow them away if they dont butt out both Maggie and Emily wonder if maybe the stakes are too highThat is until Maggie wakes to find herself surrounded by spiders