A Spirited Gift by Joyce and Jim Lavene

A Spirited Gift by Joyce and Jim Lavene is the third book in the “Missing Pieces” mystery series. Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime (Penguin), December 2011 The mayor of Duck, North Carolina, Dae O’Donnell, is a woman with a gift for finding lost things. Sometimes...

Dead Bolt by Juliet Blackwell

Dead Bolt by Juliet Blackwell is the second book in the “Haunted Home Renovation” mystery series. Publisher: Obsidian (Penguin), December 2011 There’s no room at the inn when it’s full of ghosts. General Contractor Melanie Turner’s latest...

Crops and Robbers by Paige Shelton

Crops and Robbers by Paige Shelton is the third book in the “Farmers’ Market” mystery series. Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime (Penguin), December 2011 Thanks to her delicious farm-made jams and preserves, Becca Robins’s business has been...

Double Booked for Death by Ali Brandon

Double Booked for Death by Ali Brandon is the first book in the new “Black Cat Bookshop” mystery series. Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime, December 2011 Darla Pettistone left Texas for New York after unexpectedly inheriting her great-aunt Dee’s...

Ink, Red, Dead by Joanna Campbell Slan

Ink, Red, Dead by Joanna Campbell Slan is the second short story in the “Kiki Lowenstein” mystery series. Publisher: Joanna Campbell Slan, December 2011 Things go from bad to worse when ace scrapbooker Kiki Lowenstein visits a customer’s home, and...

Trouble Under the Tree by Heather Webber

Trouble Under the Tree by Heather Webber is the sixth book in the “Nina Quinn” mystery series. Publisher: Blue Dandelion Press, December 2011 When landscape designer Nina Quinn agreed to deck the halls of Christmastowne, an indoor Christmas village, little did she...