Still unemployed, still reading. But undertaking my usual holiday-themed reads. Why not? The stores have had Christmas decorations for over a month by October.
Christmas Card Murder by Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, and Peggy Ehrhart Another holiday-themed trio of short stories from Kensington Books, which regularly publishes these for different holidays. I enjoy the format, especially during the busy time of the year. In Christmas Card Murder by Leslie Meier, Lucy Stone and her husband Bill find a Christmas card with a threatening message inside their bedroom wall during renovations. In searching to find out the story behind it, Lucy confronts the long-term ramifications of lying, decades later, a moral we all to remember. The subplot related to the murder of a young Tinker's Cove girl decades before is heartbreaking. With the story of Philip Radcliffe, Ms. Meier shows how her cosy, small-town series can deftly address nuanced situations. In Death of a Christmas Carol by Lee Hollis, audacious flirt Carol Waterman sends unappreciated Christmas cards and is later found dead, which is not what anyone was expecting under the mistletoe. To be honest, I found this story the most forgettable of the three. Death of a Christmas Card Crafter by Peggy Ehrhart features Pamela Paterson and her daughter Penny, who are heartbroken when Penny's high school art teacher is found murdered at the holiday craft fair. Karla's handmade holiday cards provide clues that Pamela and the Knit and Nibble Club use to find her killer.
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