Tag: Christmas | Frankie Bow

September 21, 2022September 12, 2022

#MidweekMystery: Deadly Traditions, a cozy Christmas anthology

Serve up a slice of fatal fruitcake and deck the halls with danger as you celebrate the holidays with mistletoe, mayhem, and murder.

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December 15, 2021December 15, 2021

Holiday Throwback: Letters to Santa, Hilo, Hawaii Edition

Dear Santa: Can I know if you give people on the bad list another chance?

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November 15, 2021November 15, 2021

Island Confidential Holiday Gift Ideas

These are not paid endorsements. These are books and businesses that I like and recommend. The authors and business owners won't even know until I tell them.

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October 13, 2021August 30, 2021

#MidweekMystery: Mistletoe Cake Murder (All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery) by Lena Gregory

’Tis the season for celebrating when Gia Morelli’s holidays include both a wedding and yuletide festivities. Until someone naughty delivers a most unwanted Christmas gift—murder. . .

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October 23, 2019October 9, 2019

#MidweekMystery: Better Watch Out by Christina Freeburn

As threats are aimed at her and those she loves, Merry dashes for the truth before the murderer puts her on the naughty list and crosses her off for good.

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September 25, 2019September 17, 2019

#MidweekMystery: The Glass House, Two Bites Too Many, and Have Yourself a Beary Little Murder

Law Librarian Pat Pirard got an unexpected thirty-fifth birthday present: a pink slip. Now she has nine weeks to reinvent herself before she runs out of money. Her best friend Syda gives her a glass forming class as a birthday present and distraction where Pat again gets a surprise: a murder.

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September 9, 2019September 9, 2019

But it’s only September…

In 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (the name was changed to Work Projects Administration in September of 1939), as part of his New Deal program to put millions of unemployed Americans back to work.

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September 4, 2019June 13, 2019

#MidweekMystery: Silent Night, Deadly Night (A Year-Round Christmas Mystery) by Vicki Delany

Residents of Rudolph keep the spirit of Christmas alive year-round—but their joy is threatened when a group of grinches visits the town, in the charming fourth installment of the Year-Round Christmas series.

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June 12, 2018

As the Christmas Cookie Crumbles (A Food Lovers’ Village Mystery): Interview with Author Leslie Budewitz

Erin is one smart cookie, but can she keep the holiday spirit—and herself—alive till Christmas? In Jewel Bay, all is merry and bright. At Murphy’s Mercantile, AKA the Merc, manager Erin Murphy is ringing in the holiday season with food, drink, and a new friend: Merrily Thornton. A local girl gone wrong, Merrily has turned …

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March 10, 2015

Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat

“I am not a rat,” Alice Mongoose said. “I am a mongoose.”

“That is impossible,” Alistair Rat replied, adjusting his monocle to get a better look at Alice (for he was quite nearsighted). “If you were a mongoose, you would have tried to kill me. Instead of sitting with me and having a nice cup of tea.”

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