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Holidays Can Be Murder


husband--and then on Alice herself--this novice detective must find the real killer before the catty culprit finds her!
  • The Alpine Christmas (Emma Lord series) by Mary Daheim - Christmas in the town of Alpine means fresh snow, carolers, even a sleigh. But then the discovery of a woman's leg in the lake, along with that of another young woman's nude, half-frozen body, deflates everyone's high spirits. But as Emma Lord, editor and publisher of The Alpine Advocate, follows up on the story, the bits and pieces of the young women who keep turning up start adding up to a murder scheme so sinister it may well land Emma on her own obituary page.
  • Tied Up in Tinsel (Roderick Alleyn series) by Ngaio Marsh - The Christmas eve Druid Pageant at Hilary Bill-Tasman's manor turns deadly when one of the players disappears into the snowy night, and the hired help turns out to be paroled murderers from the local prison.
  • Trojan Gold (Vicky Bliss series) by Elizabeth Peters - A picture is worth a thousand words but the photograph Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions, and the answers to some of them are deadly. A quick glance at the bloodstained envelope is all the proof Vicky needs to know that something is very wrong. The picture itself is familiar: A woman dressed in the gold of Troy. This isn't the famous photograph of Frau Schliemann, though. The picture is contemporary. The gold supposedly disappeared at the end of World War II.
  • Shiveree (Claire Claiborne series) by Sophie Dunbar
  • Cat in a Golden Garland (Temple Barr & Midnight Louie series) by Carole Nelson Douglas - When a New York ad agency's head honcho forgoes his traditional Santa suit for a company party and hires an actor instead, someone puts the substitute in permanent deep freeze. Meanwhile, Louie's rival in romance is still trying to turn him into kitty litter, and Mystifying Max the Magician isn't about to let the holidays pass without making a surprise proposal that leaves Temple breathless.
  • Shakespeare's Christmas (Lily Bard series) by Charlaine Harris - With the murder of the town doctor and his nurse and an unsolved eight-year-old kidnapping case suddenly reopened, the town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, is no place for a wedding, but Lily Bard's sister is still planning on tying the knot--that is, if Lily can clean up the crime situation first.
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