Death by Jack-O-Lantern
The small town of Snowberry Creek, Washington, is gearing up for the Halloween Festival, and naturally, Abby is on the planning committee. As part of her duties, she’s picking up …
Category: Holiday
Books where a holiday is the main focus of the story.
Silent Night, Deadly Night
It’s the week before Thanksgiving, and Merry Wilkinson, the owner of Mrs. Claus’s Treasures, is preparing for a weekend reunion of her mother’s college friends. But when the group of …
Valentine Candy Murder
VALENTINE MURDER Lucy has arrived at her first-ever library board meeting. Unfortunately, she finds the new librarian dead in the basement. The agitated group assumes Bitsy Howell was killed by …
A Midwinter’s Tail
Pet sitter Daphne Templeton loves the holidays in Sylvan Creek, Pennsylvania. And nothing gets her into the spirit more than the town’s annual Bark the Halls Ball. The whole community …
Wreath Between the Lines
The holidays are Jenna Hart’s favorite time of year. As she’s decorating the Cookbook Nook for all the festive events, her imperious older sister makes a surprise visit, anxious that …
‘Twas the Knife Before Christmas
When a body turns up in a larger-than-life candy bowl filled with peppermints on the town square just before Christmas, Holly White is horrified to learn that her best friend …
In Peppermint Peril
This Christmas, Callie Aspen returns to her childhood home in Heart’s Harbor, Maine, where her great-aunt runs Book Tea, a vintage tearoom where every sweet treat contains a bookish clue. …
Six Cats a Slayin’
Charlie is doing his best to show some peace and goodwill toward his nosy neighbor Gerry Arbitron, a real estate agent who seems to have designs on his house (and …
Premeditated Peppermint
Christmas is Bailey King’s favorite time of year. For her first Yuletide in Harvest, Ohio, the former big-city chocolatier is recreating a cherished holiday treat: peppermint combined with molten white …
Death of a Neighborhood Scrooge
Scotty Parker is a former child star who once played Tiny Tim, but now he’s grown up into the role of neighborhood Scrooge. He cuts the wires on his neighbors’ …
Mardi Gras Murder
It’s Mardi Gras season on the bayou, which means parades, pageantry, and gumbo galore. When a flood upends life in the tiny town of Pelican, Louisiana, and deposits a body …
The Peppermint Mocha Murder
It’s beginning to look like Christmas for Hayden Mundy Moore. On vacation from providing her sought-after expertise in all things chocolate, Hayden heads to snowy New England with her friend …
Halloween Murder
While Lucy Stone is whipping up orange-frosted cupcakes for her town’s annual Halloween festival and trick or treat bonanza, an arsonist is on the loose in Tinker’s Cove. When arson …
Read and Gone
A dedicated father is a precious thing, but Carrie Singleton wouldn’t know since her dad Jim’s been in and out of her life. In an unusual family reunion, she finds …
The Spook in the Stacks
Halloween in North Carolina’s Outer Banks is always special. This year it becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead …
As the Christmas Cookie Crumbles
All is merry and bright in Jewel Bay, Montana. At Murphy’s Mercantile, AKA the Merc, manager Erin Murphy is ringing in the holiday season with food, drink, a wedding, and …
Deja Moo
Maddie Kosloski is not a fan of San Benedetto’s Christmas Cow, the thirty-foot straw cow that sits in the town square every December. The cow displaces her paranormal museum as …
A Christmas Railway Mystery
December 1860. The morning shift at the Swindon Locomotive works sees an army of men pouring out of terraced houses built by the GWR. This is a town and planned …
How the Finch Stole Christmas
Christmas is coming to Ruby Lake, and the only things on Birds & Bees owner Amy Simms’ wish list are peace, quiet, and her beau. What she gets is murder. …
Thread the Halls
There’s no time for Angie Curtis and Patrick West to linger under the mistletoe this holiday season. Patrick’s, mother and movie star Skye West wants a perfect white Christmas. She …
Slay Bells Ring
Caprice De Luca has wrapped up her holiday-themed staging gig at a stunning historic home in downtown Kismit, Pennsylvania. Homeowners Chris and Sara Merriweather, have it all. A beautiful home, …
Yuletide Homicide
Attorney Keli Milanni is at it again. While preparing to celebrate the Wiccan Holiday Yuletide, a celebration of rebirth she finds another dead body. Only this time, she is the …
