I love reading Christmas books, and buy them all during the year at my favorite store, Loaves and Fishes, where paperbacks are a quarter and hard covers are fifty cents. I start reading them in early November. I still have a couple left on my "to be read" stack, but I have managed to read a few. The Twelve Deaths of Christmas is a short mystery which reminded me of the Miss Marple books by Agatha Christie. There is a murderer loose in a London neighborhood who claims a victim every day as Christmas approaches. It was a little gruesome in places, but a fun read. Christmas Duty is a compilation of four romance novellas set in the military at Christmas time. I am not a fan of romance books and rarely read them, so this one was a little mushy for me. The Christmas Pearl was just delightful and the most surprising. I have read several of Dorothea Benton Frank's beach books, and love her storytelling skills. The main character is a 93 year old who is try...
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