These 'lost days' between Christmas and New Year have got me thinking that the second best thing to cosying up with a good Christmas crime book at this time of year, sprawled on the sofa in your pyjamas, eating chocolate and drinking your favourite tipple, is doing all of the above but watching a Christmas… Continue reading TV Crime Series Christmas Specials
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Christmas Fair 2017 cupcakes
#It's beginning to look a lot like...# the homebake stall at the Christmas Fair! Chocolate cupcakes with piped plain buttercream and edible decorations Click or swipe an image to open the gallery:
The Present by D S Devlin
12 deadly gifts, one killer on a Christmas countdown… On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me… this is one deadly Christmas that you can’t forget.The police are baffled by the ‘Santa’ killer, who sends his intended victims gruesome presents based on the twelve days of Christmas. When a young journalist… Continue reading The Present by D S Devlin
The Deaths of December by Susi Holliday
It looks like a regular advent calendar. Until DC Becky Greene starts opening doors...and discovers a crime scene behind almost every one. The police hope it's a prank. Because if it isn't, a murderer has just surfaced - someone who's been killing for twenty years. But why now? And why has he sent it to… Continue reading The Deaths of December by Susi Holliday
The Midnight Peacock (The Sinclair’s Mysteries 4) by Katherine Woodfine
You are cordially invited to Sinclair's Midnight Peacock Ball! The festive season has come to Sinclair's and Sophie and Lil are spending the holidays at snowy Winter Hall. But it turns out that this is no ordinary house party ...As sinister secrets come to light, our intrepid heroines find themselves faced with a more baffling… Continue reading The Midnight Peacock (The Sinclair’s Mysteries 4) by Katherine Woodfine
No Exit by Taylor Adams
Darby Thorne is a college student stranded by a blizzard at a highway rest stop in the middle of nowhere. She’s on the way home to see her sick mother. She’ll have to spend the night in the rest stop with four complete strangers. Then she stumbles across a little girl locked inside one of… Continue reading No Exit by Taylor Adams
Murder Under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season Edited by Cecily Gayford
Murder Under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season by Cecily Gayford My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a great collection of fun and festive Christmas murder mysteries. They're all short stories and easy to read so perfect for fitting in between mince pies, present opening and turkey sandwiches!
Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries 5) by Robin Stevens
Mistletoe and Murder by Robin Stevens My rating: 5 of 5 stars I love this series and I love Hazel and Daisy! I also love a Christmas murder mystery, so this is a total winner for me. I really enjoyed having the Junior Pinkertons on the scene and the mystery was clever. The descriptions of… Continue reading Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries 5) by Robin Stevens
Death on a Cold Night by Jess Faraday
Death on a Cold Night by Jess Faraday My rating: 4 of 5 stars Death on a Cold Night is a collection of eight short mystery stories, edited by Jess Faraday, with the shared themes of winter. The stories chosen are: the very short but satisfying, Hollywood-set Snow in Winter by Wendy Worthington; the quick… Continue reading Death on a Cold Night by Jess Faraday
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