November heralds the beginning of the holiday season.
The Christmas movies on Hallmark and Family channel have already begun. Not to mention all the Christmas decorations and aisles marked "Gifts" in the stores and online. And staged shelves of Christmas baking items in the grocery stores.
The one thing that makes me feel the holidays are upon us is when you start seeing Christmas books and novellas advertised. Last year I had a short holiday story in the Windtree Press Anthology Crime Never Takes a Holiday.
A cornucopia of ten cozy mystery stories that are perpetrated during holidays from New Years to Christmas. This collection explores unexplained disturbances, college pranks gone wrong, and almost always one or more murders around a holiday. Solve these spooky crimes that lurk beneath celebratory parties and help search for the murderers. Kick off your shoes, grab a warm drink, and snuggle into a blanket before you get lured onto the sparkling snow for the next crime spree.
Crime Never Takes a Holiday
Dead Ladies Don’t Dance by Robin Weaver
Took Nothing Left Nothing by Pamela Cowan
Busted for Bones by Dari LaRoche
Yuletide Firebug by Kathy Coatney
Starry Night Murder by Mary Vine
The Twelfth Night Murder by Ann Chaney
Blue Christmas by Melissa Yi
Two Turtle Doves by Maggie Lynch
Five Golden Rings by Kimila Kay
Universal buy link: https://books2read.com/u/b6zYgp
This year I have a Christmas Novella. It is set in my Shandra Higheagle Mystery world.
Christmas Chaos takes up the lives of my characters Shandra Higheagle, her husband Ryan Greer, and their adopted twins ten years after the series ends. I also made sure several of the characters whom the readers met throughout the series were mentioned.
Christmas Chaos
A Shandra Higheagle Mystery
Novella
Shandra Higheagle Greer is anxiously awaiting a visit from her twins as they head home from college for Christmas break. After a ten-year absence, her deceased grandmother is back in her dreams and the message seems clear. The twins are in trouble. After giving a young woman a ride to a nearby town, they become suspects in her murder.
Even though he's been removed from the case, Shandra and her husband, Weippe County Sheriff Ryan Greer, continue to investigate, determined to dig up proof that the twins had nothing to do with the homicide. Even if that means putting one of the twins in danger to uncover the truth.
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You can be sure I'll find a new to me Christmas story to read as the days grow shorter and I spend more time snuggled up in my chair with a blanket.
2 comments:
I love reading anthology short stories for two reasons. First and foremost I get to read 'new-to-me' authors. And second, I can finish a story during a break in my day.
I've taken to reading mysteries more lately. Both the anthology and your new Shandra Higheagle Holiday Mystery sound wonderful!!!
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