Amateur Sleuths Christmas

It’s been a hard year for Steve and Katie Nicholas. They fought vengeful ghosts as well as psychotic living relatives, and that was just their first year of marriage. But when Steve surprises Katie with a peaceful Christmas getaway at a secluded cabin in the mountains they awaken slumbering spirits with unfinished business. Tying together seemingly unrelated supernatural threads Steve fears his picture-perfect vacation will be shattered and his peace dashed.

December in Savannah, Georgia, is a sight to behold. Twin sisters Tabby and Sage Winslow are busier than ever setting up for the big celebration. But that isn’t the only thing on the sisters’ minds. Both Sage and her fellow employee Mary Nicole are vying for the sought-after assistant-manager job at the plant nursery. But when Loren Lee, their boss, is found dead and Sage becomes the police’s favorite suspect, both Winslow girls know that they’ll need more than a flicker of magic and their sisterhood to solve the murder and clear Sage’s name.

A classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder. Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome, at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so, too, are tensions amongst the assortment of guests.

It’s Christmas in Coopers Crossing! What could be more wonderful than a thick blanket of snow covering the roofs and trees of a quaint small town in upstate New York? Except it’s been raining for weeks, and Libby Cord’s been roped into organizing a Christmas market at the newly opened Arts Center, and the decorations in front of it would make Las Vegas blush for shame. How could things get any worse? A murder, of course...but, considering how unloved the victim was, maybe this was somebody’s idea of a Christmas gift?

Charles Dickens is one of the most famous and influential writers in English literature, and Heather Redmond's delightful series asks what if Dickens had also solved crimes? Now, the third book in the acclaimed A Dickens of a Crime series reimagines Dickens' most famous story, A Christmas Carol, as a murder mystery with Dickens himself as the sleuth.

All Holly wants for Christmas is to prove to her parents that her pricey college education was worth it. When she lands a reporting job in tiny Blue Lake, where the chill winds blow off Lake Huron all winter long, and a guest dies at a dinner party, she isn't sure she can meet that goal. Holly has a second writing gig as a true crime reporter in mind, but there's only one problem: The new love interest keeping her warm is determined she should not write about the one thing her heart desires.