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Christmas Wedding (Magnolia Mystery Series #7)

Wilmington’s social event of the season is about to unfold: Ashley and Melanie’s lavish Christmas-theme double wedding to their princes charming, Jon and Cameron. Vows will be exchanged at St.…

Christmas: Sugar Cookie Murder, Candy Cane Murder, Plum Pudding Murder, and Gingerbread Cookie Murder

This is available as an e-book. This includes 4 Hannah Swenson Christmas books. The holidays are the icing on the cake for bakery owner Hannah Swensen. Surrounded by her loved ones, she has all…

Cook's Curious Christmas A Novella (The Angie Amalfi Mysteries)

NOTE: This is a novella. Culinary sleuth Angie Amalfi believes that not even Christmas should get in the way of preparations for her wedding to homicide detective Paavo Smith. But in this season…

Cooked Goose (Savannah Reid Series #4)

It's hard to get into the Christmas spirit when the Santa Ana winds are blowing across Southern California at a balmy ninety degrees. It's also hard to live in a Baywatch world when you're uh...…

Cookies in the Cottage (Inn at Holiday Bay #13)

After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted,…

Cozy Christmas (Southern Quilting Mystery Series #18)

n the charming mountain town of Dappled Hills, Christmas is a time of twinkling lights, cozy quilts, and enchantment. This holiday season, the tight-knit community is buzzing with excitement…

Crepe Factor (Scrapbooking Mystery Series #14)

The Winter Market in the French Quarter is in full swing, but murder isn’t taking a holiday in the latest from the New York Times bestselling author of Parchment and Old Lace... The holidays are a…

Crewel Yule (Needlecraft Mystery Series #8)

Part-time sleuth and full-time owner of the needlework shop Crewel World, Betsy Devonshire prepares for a chilling holiday season filled with mistletoe-and murder.


Crimes and Covers (Magical Bookshop Mystery #5)

 Violet Waverly sleuths a Thoreau-ly puzzling Christmastime murder in Agatha Award-winning, USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower's fifth Magical Bookshop…

Dae's Christmas Past (Missing Pieces Mystery #6)

Featuring Pet Psychic Mary Catherine Roberts! When wild horse rescue director Tom Watts is found dead on Duck Road, psychic mayor Dae O’Donnell is determined to find out who killed him. Her friend…

Dandy Gilver and the Reek of Red Herrings (Dandy Gilver #9)

On the rain-drenched, wave-lashed, wind-battered Banffshire coast, tiny fishing villages perch on ledges which would make a seagull think twice and crumbly mansions cling to crumblier cliff tops…

Dash Away All (Merry & Bright Handcrafted #3)

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…Merry Winters is excited for her dream-come-true moment: Being an on-site crafter for a Christmas movie. The tidings of joy are short-lived as she finds…

Dashing Through the Snow (Mary & Carol Higgins Clark Holiday Series #5)

From beloved mother-daughter duo Mary Higgins Clark, America's Queen of Suspense, and Carol Higgins Clark, author of the hugely popular Regan Reilly mystery series, comes Dashing Through the Snow…

Dashing Through the Snowbirds (Meg Langslow Series #32)

Christmas in Caerphilly is wonderful! Unless you’re a Canadian whose inconsiderate boss is forcing you to spend the holiday there, far from family and friends, with only a slim chance of a…

Dead in the Water (Campbell and Carter Mystery #4)

As Christmas approaches in the sleepy English village of Weston Saint Ambrose, the rains bring the wettest winter on record and the farmer’s fields are submerged. The water uncovers all manner of…

Deadly Patterns (Magical Dressmaking Mystery Series #3)

Bliss, Texas, is gearing up for its annual Winter Wonderland festival, but when a mysterious Scrooge ends the merriment with murder, it’ll take more than a ghost from Christmas past to set things…

Death at a Scottish Christmas (Scottish Isle Mystery #3)

Merriment, mistletoe, and murder await in the third installment of the Scottish Isle mystery series, perfect for fans of Sheila Connolly and Joanne Fluke.

Sea Isle,…

Death at Holly Lodge (Daisy Thorne #3)

T’was the weeks before Christmas,
and Daisy nabs a new case,
when a missing man is found
stuffed above a fireplace . . .
 
Ooh La La hair salon owner Daisy Thorne…

Death By Deceit (Josiah Reynolds Mystery Series #13)

Josiah Reynolds and her girlfriend had just seen a movie and were going home when they discover a dead body. Why does this always happen to Josiah? She learns the dead man was a reporter and a…

Death by Eggnog (Bookstore Cafe Mystery #5)

Krissy Hancock is staying in her adopted hometown of Pine Hills, Ohio, for Christmas this year-and she even has a whole week off from her combination bookstore-café. But a killer is about to…

Death by Peppermint Cappuccino (Bookstore Cafe Mystery #12)

Christmas has come to Pine Hills, and Krissy’s blooming relationship with Officer Paul Dalton has her in an especially festive mood. The café’s new seasonal signature drink is a hit too. But…

Death in a Cold Hard Light (Merry Folger Nantucket #4)

After a trying case, detective Merry Folger begrudgingly agrees to take a leave from work to meet her fussy future in-laws in Greenwich, but it isn’t long before she is summoned back to Nantucket…

Death of a Christmas Caterer (Hayley Powell Mystery #5)

Who better than food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell to book a caterer for the Island Times holiday party? But Hayley's quest for a cook turns into the pursuit of a killer who caters to no…

Death of a Gingerbread Man (Hayley Powell Mystery #17)

When Christmas comes to town in Bar Harbor, Maine, so does a killer with a real taste for revenge . . .

With the holiday season in full swing, food and cocktails…

Death of a Neighborhood Scrooge (Jaine Austen Mystery Series #16)

Freelance writer Jaine Austen is feeling festive about spending Christmas house-sitting at a posh Bel Air mansion, accompanied by her friend Lance and her cat, Prozac. But when a grumpy neighbor…

Death of a Russian Doll (Vintage Toyshop Mystery #3)

It’s all fun and games with toyshop owner Liz McCall until deadly secrets are unwrapped upon the eve of the holidays. Who knew? Liz McCall is not thrilled when her boyfriend Police Chief Ken Young…

Death of a Snob Series #6

Believing that someone is trying to murder her, gorgeous Jane Wetherby asks Hamish Macbeth to spend Christmas with her and an exclusive group of friends at her Scottish island health farm. With a…

Death on a Winter Stroll (Merry Folger Nantucket #7)

No-nonsense Nantucket detective Merry Folger grapples with the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and two murders as the island is overtaken by Hollywood stars and DC suits.

Death With All the Trimmings (Key West Food Critic Mystery Series #5)

The only snow in Key West this Christmas is Hayley Snow, food critic for Key Zest magazine, who is not getting time off for the holiday or time off from murder. It may be Christmastime, but…

December Dread (Murder-by-Month Series #8)

With Christmas just over a week away, ’tis the season for grinning sales elves on TV, maddeningly jolly Muzak, and a guilty Nut Goodie addiction. But for Mira James and other Battle Lake-area…