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A Holly, Jolly Murder

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Merry, Merry Ghost

Carolyn G. Hart · 282 pages

Introduced in Agatha-winner Hart's Ghost at Work (2008), the late Bailey Ruth Raeburn returns to earth on a heavenly mission to help a four-year-old orphan in this delightful sequel. Susan Flynn, the matriarch of one of the leading families of Adelaide, Okla., who's dying from congestive heart failure, discovers she has a grandson after Keith, the child of Susan's soldier son killed in Iraq, shows

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Duck the Halls

Donna Andrews · 329 pages

"As the holidays draw near in Caerphilly, Mother volunteers to take part in a big Christmas-themed decorator show house--each room of a temporarily untenanted house is decorated to the hilt by a different decorator for the public to tour. Of course, Mother insists that Meg pitch in with the organization, and she finds herself surrounded by flamboyant personalities with massive egos clashing and fe

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December Dread

Jess Lourey

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Forbidden Fruit

Kerry Greenwood · 301 pages

It's Christmas and Corinna Chapman is back in another criminally entertaining and delicious adventure. This time our amateur sleuth-baker extraordinaire is in search of a recipe for glace cherries when trouble lands on her doorstep.

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Agatha Raisin and the Christmas Crumble

M.C. Beaton · 71 pages

Agatha is spending Christmas at home in the Cotswolds - and in a fit of goodwill towards all men (and women) she invites six of Carsley's oldest residents to come around and share Christmas lunch with her. Christmas jollity soon turns to disaster as Agatha accidentally kills one of her guests with a gruesome homemade Christmas pudding ... so will it be Christmas in the cells for Agatha? Or can she

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I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

Alan Bradley · 286 pages

It's Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce - an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving - is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces' decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern. Amid a ragin

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We Witch You A Merry Christmas

Adele Abbott · 92 pages

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The Bark Before Christmas

Laurien Berenson · 332 pages

Melanie Travis has her hands full with her two young sons, a part-time job, and a half dozen Poodles to her name. But even with the busy holiday season approaching, she still has time to sniff out a Christmastime killer...There's nothing lovelier than Christmas in Connecticut, but Melanie can scarcely find a moment to enjoy the festivities. With her youngest son approaching toddlerhood, she's deci

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Murder with All the Trimmings

Elaine Viets · 292 pages

A humbug of a Shopping mystery...From The Anthony and Agatha Award-Winning Author of Accessory to MurderIncludes insider shopping tips!Mystery shopper Josie Marcus doesn’t get the appeal of the year-round Christmas shop. But when three such holiday houses pop up within two blocks, she’s assigned to rate them anonymously.Easy enough, Josie thinks, until she realizes that shoppers at one store are f

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It Came Upon a Midnight Crime

Christy Barritt · 166 pages

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A Puzzle in a Pear Tree

Parnell Hall · 384 pages

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Death of a Christmas Caterer

Lee Hollis · 347 pages

"Office Christmas parties can sometimes mean career suicide--but they rarely lead to murder. Hayley thought Garth Rawlings would be the perfect caterer for this year's bash, but when the gourmet sees her budget, he goes galloping. Unfortunately his run is short-lived. Garth is found dead on the floor of his kitchen, with his delectable creations burning in the oven. Faced with a spread of suspects

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The Merchant of Menace

Jill Churchill · 256 pages

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A Wee Christmas Homicide

Kaitlyn Dunnett · 278 pages

Tis the season to be jolly, but in Moosetookalook, Maine, Christmas cheer is in short supply due to a snowless winter that's keeping skiers and shoppers at a distance. Fortunately, Liss MacCrimmon of the Scottish Emporium has a plan...Liss's brainstorm focuses on Tiny Teddies, the new "hot" toy of the season. Every store across the country is out of stock--except a few wee establishments in good o

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Nutty as a Fruitcake

Mary Daheim · 266 pages

Hillside Manor's neighbors all adored proprietor Judith McMonigle Flynn's festive suggestion to deck the halls and houses in their cul-de-sac with eye-catching Christmas finery -- except Enid Goodrich.The grumpy old humbug refused to cooperate.Then someone cooked her Christmas goose -- silencing Enid's objections with a handy hatchet. Though Judith's already got a lot under her tree -- what with h

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Christmas Crazy

Kathi Daley · 166 pages

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Deck the Hallways

Kate Carlisle · 293 pages

Someone's been slayed! If contractor Shannon Hammer can't nail the real culprit in the St. Nick of time, her dad will wind up in the clink....

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Let It Sew

Elizabeth Lynn Casey · 333 pages

Instead of spending a nice, relaxing Christmas with her fiancé, Tori Sinclair has been drafted into Sweet Briar’s holiday Decorating Committee. And the season has brought sad tidings as well: Charlotte Devereaux, a sewing circle founding member who unraveled after her storybook marriage fell apart, has passed away. Charlotte’s last days were foggy, distressed, and feverish… except for the ske

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Christmas Bliss

Mary Kay Andrews · 335 pages

"Christmas is coming, but Savannah antique dealer Weezie Foley is doubly distracted--both by her upcoming wedding to her longtime love, chef Daniel Stipanek and also by the fact that her best friend and maid-of-honor BeBe Loudermilk is due to give birth any day--and is still adamantly refusing to marry her live-in-love Harry. Readers have come to love these characters in Mary Kay Andrews' three pr

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Grave Apparel

Ellen Byerrum · 290 pages

The "fabulously fun" fashionista/sleuth Lacey Smithsonian is back in the case of a food editor who may have given her holiday sweater-hating coworker her just desserts...

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