It's Christmas and Raziel the angel has been sent down for the first time in two thousand years to perform a Christmas miracle. His mission is to find a child and make their wish come true. Simple, right? But this is Raziel who can screw even the simplest things up. First off he scares the boy and second he takes the boy's words too literally.
The child's upset that Santa has been killed. Josh witnessed Lena accidentally kill her ex-husband Dale who was dressed in a Santa suit. He wasn't the only one who saw it happen. Tuck, a pilot who is currently working for the DEA looking for drugs in the Big Sur from his plane, decides to help Lena by burying Dale and moving his truck to a new location to look as though he had gone fishing and fell off a cliff while drunk. Tuck has a pet fruit bat named Rodrigo and has just gotten out of a relationship and is looking for someone to spend Christmas with and believes Lena is that person. It's love at first sight for both of them.
Lena wants to tell her friend Molly, the former actress best known for the Warrior Babe of the Outland movies, but she can't because Molly's husband Theo is a constable. Theo catches a lot of crap from the sheriff's department for not being a "real" cop. He used to smoke a lot of pot, but when he married Molly five years ago the two of them made a deal: he'd stop doing drugs if she'd stay on the drugs she needed for her mental illness. This year, though, in a warped O''Henry's Gift of the Maji way, Molly stopped taking her meds in order to save enough money to buy this really beautiful bong for Theo and Theo has been growing and selling marijuana in order to buy a real sword for Molly. The crazier Molly gets, the rockier their relationship gets.
Molly really doesn't like that Theo is investigating Lena. But Lena isn't fond of the idea of Tuck blackmailing Theo when he gets the chance. Everything comes to a head on Christmas Eve at the Lonesome Christmas Party at the church when Raziel has decided to bring Santa back to life and ends up bringing back to life everyone in the graveyard and now the partygoers have to contend with zombies.
This book does contain an extra bit for those who have read it before and want more of it. It's at the end of the book and is, in my opinion, unnecessary and cumbersome. For those familiar with Moore, this takes place in Pine Cove where the books Practical Demon Keeping and Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove are located. Also Raziel from Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christ's Childhood Friend and Tuck and Rodrigo from Island of the Sequined Love Nun are in this one making it quite the festive book. But if you haven't read those books you won't be lost or confused. You might, however, want to pick up the other books and read them. This is a hilarious book filled with a host of bizarre people and happenings. I really loved this book and cannot recommend it enough.
Link to Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Stupidest-Angel-v2-0-Heartwarming-Christmas-ebook/dp/B006O0I3ZO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1512565746&sr=8-1&keywords=the+stupidest+angel
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