As many of you know, I love mysteries and so it should come as no surprise that I have a number of books whose mystery is focused around Christmas time. Christmas Ghosts, An Anthology Selected by Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis, includes those most famous Christmas ghosts of all, Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It is a shortened version that Dickens used when he gave readings of his most famous story. Charles Dickens is a hard act to follow which may be why his story is toward the end of the book. The other stories are fun, scary, familiar and easy to read at your fireside with your cup of cocoa on a cold winter's night.
Anne Perry writes the Victorian, Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries. Anne Perry's Christmas Mysteries includes two holiday novels. The first, A Christmas Guest, is about Charlotte's irascible Grandmama who learns a number of valuable lessons over what starts out to be a dull, boring and terribly unsatisfying Christmas holiday. While learning about herself, she also learns the answer to a family mystery and in doing so frees several people to live their intended lives.
The second, A Christmas Secret, brings Dominic and Clarice Corde to fill in for the suddenly vacationing vicar of Cottisham. Except, of course, nothing is as it seems. The Corde's unravel the mystery and learn about themselves as well. Anne Perry writes wonderful characters and all her books are worth the read. I am very glad she chose to indulge a little in Christmas.
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