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THE SINGING OF THE DEAD is the eleventh book in Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak mystery series. Originally published in 2001, it was reissued in digital format in 2013. Following the death of Kate Shugak's lover Jack Morgan, his divorced wife Jane assumes custody of their fourteen-year-old son...

SERVICE OF A FRIEND is Kate Speck's variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in digital format but gives no publication date. Speck's major change from the canon is in her handling of the initial meeting of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy at the Meryton assembly...

"Not Romantic" is Maria Grace's short story variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2015. Set in 1811 after Charles Bingley is installed at Netherfield, while Mr. Collins is visiting the Bennets, "Not Romantic" explains Charlotte Lucas's unsentimental...

"Last Dance" is Maria Grace's short story variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in free or inexpensive digital format in 2015. Elizabeth, Jane, and Lydia are married; Kitty and their parents are away on a visit, while Mary stays with Aunt and Uncle Philips in Meryton...

THE FOURTH STRING is the seventh book in Jill Paterson's Fitzjohn mystery series set in Sydney, Australia. It was published in digital format in 2017. Detective Chief Inspector Alistair Fitzjohn is on leave when he's recalled to work the high-profile murder of Crispin Fairchild, resident of the...

UNWILLING is a variant by Elizabeth Adams on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2016. When Thomas Bennet is diagnosed with progressive heart failure the week after the Netherfield ball, he sets in motion major changes without disclosing his medical...

Julian Symons's short story "The Santa Claus Club" is one featured in CRIMSON SNOW: WINTER MYSTERIES, edited by Martin Edwards. The anthology was published in digital format in 2016. Lord Acrise, self-made, wealthy, receives threatening letters from his early business partner James Glidden, who...

"Off the Tiles" is Ianthe Jerrold's short story included in CRIMSON SNOW: WINTER MYSTERIES, a collection of short fiction edited by Martin Edwards. The anthology was published in 2016 in digital format. Inspector James Quy of the Chelsea Police answers the call of Mrs. Flitcroft that reports...

"Murder at Christmas" is Christopher Bush's short story included in the CRIMSON SNOW: WINTER MYSTERIES anthology edited by Martin Edwards and published in 2016. The collection is available in free or inexpensive digital format. While spending Christmas weekend with his friend Bob Valence, Chief...

DEATH IN DECEMBER is Victor Gunn's 1943 Christmas novella included in CRIMSON SNOW: WINTER MYSTERIES, a holiday anthology edited by Martin Edwards. The collection was published in digital format in 2016. Chief Inspector Bill "Ironsides" Cromwell grumbles and complains but attends a Christmas...

The Man With the Sack" is Margery Allingham's Christmas short story chosen by editor Martin Edwards for the 2016 CRIMSON SNOW: WINTER MYSTERIES anthology. The collection is available in free or inexpensive digital format. Albert Campion's first instinct is to refuse Mae Turrett's invitation to...

"The Chopham Affair" is an Edgar Wallace Christmas short story included in the CRIMSON SNOW: WINTER MYSTERIES anthology edited by Martin Edwards in 2016. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. The plot is simple. A blackmail victim refuses to continue paying Alphonso Ribiera...

Fergus Hume's "The Ghost's Touch," is the first short story in the anthology CRIMSON SNOW: WINTER MYSTERIES edited by Martin Edwards. The collection was published in digital format in 2016. The narrator Lascelles, an Army doctor stationed in India but home to England on leave in December 1893...

'Gone Before Christmas" is Charles Finch's seasonal short story featuring Charles Lenox, published in digital format in 2017. It is set in and around London during Christmas week 1877. Private detective Charles Lenox and his elder brother Sir Edmund Lenox, together to choose between Christmas...

TWELFTH NIGHT AT LONGBOURN is Maria Grace's 2013 seasonal novella, volume four in her Given Good Principles series of variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. Following the advantageous marriages of her three older sisters--Elizabeth...

MURDER FOR CHRISTMAS was originally published in 1949 by Francis Duncan and reissued in digital format in 2017. A Christmas house party and especially the Christmas tree are essential elements of the story. Benedict Grame, wealthy owner of Sherbroome Hall, is famous for his Dickensian...

CHRISTMAS IN DERBYSHIRE is Wynne Mabry's 2017 seasonal novel based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. To Fitzwilliam Darcy's great surprise, George Wickham receives ordination and, when its elderly incumbent dies, claims the promised...

CHRISTMAS WITH MR. DARCY is a short novel by Victoria Connelly, set at a Christmas conference on Jane Austen. It was published in digital format in 2012. While her earlier Austen conferences have been highly successful, this is the first noted actress Dame Pamela Harcourt has hosted at...

TWO DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS is Leenie Brown's 2017 seasonal novella based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. When her brother returns unexpectedly from Hertfordshire depressed and avoiding her, Georgiana Darcy worries that Caroline Bingley...

MURDER AT MISTLETOE MANOR is Holly Tierney-Bedord's 2015 holiday novella, the first in her Windy Pines mystery series. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. Klarinda Snow is surprised but pleased when she discovers that all seven rooms at her inn Mistletoe Manor in Windy Pines...