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Santa Grint

Time Police · Short story · 2022

Santa Grint makes the Time Police's first children's Christmas party a problem worthy of their formidable resources.

Short story, between books 4 and 5

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Santa Grint makes the Time Police's first children's Christmas party a problem worthy of their formidable resources. Lieutenant Grint allows his softer instincts some freedom and faces consequences involving bubble universes, a child and a toad called Mr Fluffy.

The publisher also puts Officer Parrish in the uncomfortable position of potentially rescuing Grint from prison.

The site's view is that the party setting is the strongest reason to choose this extra. The organisation that enforces order across time has to contend with a celebration for children, and Grint's own decision drives the trouble.

It is an opportunity to spend a Christmas story with the police side of Taylor's connected worlds.

Read it after About Time in the Time Police sequence. This story is sold separately in ebook and audio, and is included in The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. Zara Ramm's individual audiobook lasts 3 hours 2 minutes.

The collection also contains St Mary's and Frogmorton Farm stories if you want to range beyond headquarters.

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Zara Ramm · 3 hr 2 min

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UK Digital audio · English · Unabridged

Listed audio release: 25 December 2022.

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Australia Ebook · Hachette Australia

ISBN 9781035402748 · released 25 December 2022

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