This week we have even more Christmas mysteries for your holiday reading-Christmas Mittens Murder by Lee Hollis, Lynn Cahoon, and Maddie Day, A Furry Little Christmas by Laurien Berenson (two novellas in one), and Murder on the Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict.
Former investigative journalist Luke Tremblay plans to stay in Vancouver Island’s Crescent Cove only for as long as it takes to sell his late aunt’s cottage and antique shop. He hadn’t ever planned on returning to the place where he spent his summer vacations, as his beloved Aunt Marguerite had abruptly cut off contact with him at the same time he was disowned by his parents.
It’s been 40 years since Althea Fontenot was last in New Orleans, when she was only six years old and her mother Fern moved them away to Seattle with vows never to return. Ironically, Fern is the very reason Althea is back in New Orleans, as after her mother’s death Althea is charged with returning Fern’s ashes to her birthplace in the French Quarter.
As much as Beacon Bakeshop owner Lindsey Bakewell appreciates the Halloween season and the town’s Halloween Bash celebrations, she’s at her limit with the pranks and trick-before-treats shenanigans. Waking up every day to find a different horror movie icon hanging outside of her lighthouse home has gotten old, especially since she already has the in-house ghost of Captain Willy Riggs haunting the tower. Not sharing Lindsey’s sentiment is her best friend Kennedy Kapoor, who is doing everything she can to promote the Beacon Harbor Halloween Bash’s Pumpkin Pageant.
Maddie James has always felt the pressure to live up to her family’s name, what with her father being the CEO of the only hospital on Daybreak Island and her mother a local business magnate and community leader. So Maddie knows that when her sister Sam recruits her and their other sister Val for the Daybreak Island Haunted Halloween Festival, the family’s all-in philosophy will keep Maddie busy juggling tasks to ensure success.
After the events depicted in Hell and Back, Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire is recovering at the home of “The Greatest Legal Mind” of our time, aka his daughter Cady. His enjoyment of also getting to hang out with his new granddaughter is cut short when he is called back to work to investigate a missing motorist who unfortunately trusted a little too much the accuracy of Google Maps.
This week we have a pair of Halloween mystery books for your enjoyment (one is actually a book with 3 novellas in it)-Halloween Cupcake Murder by Carlene O’Connor, Liz Ireland, and Carol J. Perry and Catch Me If You Candy: A Bakeshop Mystery by Ellie Alexander.
This week we have another catch-up group of fun mysteries including some with Halloween and supernatural settings-A Clue in the Crumbs: A Key West Food Critic Mystery by Lucy Burdette, A Shimmer of Red: An Odessa Jones Mystery by Valerie Wilson Wesley, Mischief Nights Are Murder by Libby Klein, and Murder at the Elms by Alyssa Maxwell.
In the short time that Cassandra Sato has been working at Morton College in Omaha, Nebraska, the vice president of Student Affairs has already earned herself the nickname Queen of Doom. Cassandra left her home on Oahu when her career stalled there, as her dreams of one day being a college president were much more attainable on the mainland.
Ben Rosencrantz never planned on spending his 30th birthday back in his hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah, and he especially didn’t envision having to take over his father’s Of Dice and Decks board game store. Growing up as the only out person in his school and being an unabashed fantasy and sci-fi nerd in the largely Mormon population always made Ben feel like an outsider, so he was happy to escape to graduate school and become an adjunct professor of English in Seattle.
