Three Christmas Treats

A book is one of the best gifts you can give someone for Christmas. Here are three mystery novels that take place at Christmastime to add to your shopping list. Oh, and don't forget to include your own name!

The story takes place the week before Christmas when the stress of the holidays is enough to frazzle anyone’s nerves. Tensions increase when a friend begs Muriel to team up with a sexy private investigator to find a missing woman. Forced to deal with an embezzler, kidnapper, and femme fatale is bad enough, but add Muriel’s zany yet loveable family to the mix and their desire to win the coveted D-DAY (Death Defying Act of the Year) Award that’s presented on Christmas Eve, and the situation can only get worse.
Frank, Incense and Muriel is recipient of the prestigious 2011 Holt Medallion Award of Merit.

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Anne K. Albert

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A romantic Christmas vacation for…five? This wasn’t exactly what Jessie and Wilson had in mind when they planned their trip to the tropics. But when Jessie’s delightfully spry mother, Wilson’s surfer dude son, and Jessie’s rabidly hyperactive New York agent decide to tag along the fun begins. What kind of trouble can these three oddest of odd balls possibly get into? Take a guess.

 

Cindy Blackburn 
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Collies and people in peril cast a shadow over Christmas in Foxglove Corners. It’s December in Foxglove Corners, and the snow is falling. On Sunset Lake, Jennet Ferguson sees a skater fall through the thin ice and calls for help. But there’s no girl and no body. Meanwhile, in the nearby town of Lakeville, a collie stands accused of murdering her mistress. As she plans a Christmas celebration and a New Year’s Eve wedding, Jennet discovers that she must first solve the mysteries of the phantom skater and the killer dog.

 

Dorothy Bodoin