Page 2
Wreck the Halls by Sarah Graves, November 2001 - Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree, a former Manhattan financial manager and now a "do-it-yourself" home renovator, gets involved when a neighbor, Faye Anne Carmody, is accused of butchering her wife-beating husband.
Murder, Mayhem & Mistletoe by Terence Faherty, Aileen Schumacher, Wendi Lee, & Bill Crider, November 2001 - Four short stories set during Yuletide featuring Terence Faherty's metaphysical sleuth, Owen Keane; Aileen Schumacher's engineer and amateur sleuth, Tory Travers; Wendi Lee's Boston P.I., Angela Matelli; and Bill Crider's Texas sheriff, Dan Rhodes.
Mad as the Dickens by Toni L. P. Kelner, October 2001 - Five months pregnant, Laura Fleming, an MIT graduate and computer programmer, and her English professor husband, Richard, had planned on spending a quiet Christmas at home in Boston. Then Laura's cousin, Vasti, begs Richard to come down to help with a production of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. What should have been fun becomes dangerous as a series of practical jokes turns deadly and ends in murder.
Re-released for the Holidays
- Advent of Dying by Carol Anne O'Marie - She had vowed to give up reading mysteries for Advent. But Sister Mary Helen hadn't the foggiest notion that she was about to be back in the business of solving them. Always of catholic mind, she had rushed in where angels fear to treat--to Ghirardelli Square's swinging Sea Wench Bar--to hear her usually quiet secretary belt out the blues. But Sister May Helen's surprise at Suzanne's talents soon tumed to shock...at her murder. It was a matter of conscience to investigate, but her good intentions soon led her from the paths of righteousness into one of the deadliest secrets of the heart.
- Corpus Christmas by Margaret Maron - A relic of Manhattan's Gilded Age, when Edith Wharton and Henry James chronicled its inhabitants, the Erich Bruel House on Gramercy Park contained three floors of glorious art-and one Christmas corpse. While the mansion was being decorated with antique ornaments, and preparations were being made for a lavish holiday party, someone killed the obnoxious art historian Dr. Roger Shambley. Lieutenant Sigrid Harald of the New York Police Department comes up with a long list of suspects, and must sort through all sorts of motives, including academic rivalry, infidelity, art fraud, and good old-fashioned spite. Unless Sigrid can wrap up this homicide before the killer strikes again, her romantic white Christmas is going to be splashed with crimson.
| Here's the follow-up discussion on this article: | View all related messages |
For a complete listing of article comments, questions, and other discussions related to 's Mystery Novels & Authors topic, please visit the Discussions page.