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FROM ADMIRATION TO LOVE is Maria Grace's 2017 seasonal novella based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. FROM ADMIRATION TO LOVE opens with the making of the Christmas pudding on Stir It Up Sunday, a Bennet family tradition Elizabeth...

MURDER FIR CHRISTMAS is the 2015 holiday offering, identified as a Christmas Tree Valley mystery, by Joyce and Jim Lavene. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. After working in Alabama for ten years, Bonnie Tuttle returns to Sweet Pepper and nearby Christmas Tree Valley...

MR. DARCY'S MIRACLE AT LONGBOURN is Rose Fairbanks's 2017 holiday variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, into which she incorporates the plot device of the 1993 film Groundhog Day. It is available in inexpensive digital format. ~~~SPOILERS~~~ Part I, "Mr. Darcy's Christmas Joy," opens...

CHRISTMAS IN THE SISTERS is Becki Willis's 2017 holiday entry in her The Sisters, Texas, mystery series. It is available in digital format. Brash deCordova, chief of police in the tiny twin cities of Naomi and Juliet, Texas, is preoccupied with two criminal enterprises--a floating gambling...

MURDER AT NETHERFIELD is Diane Bryton's sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. The setting is December 1818 at Netherfield, where Jane and Charles Bingley entertain both their families for the holiday season; the epilogue covers through following...

Alexa Adams's HOLIDAYS AT PEMBERLEY is the third in her A Tale of Less Pride and Prejudice series, sequels to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in digital format. I don't quite understand the structure of the series. The first two, FIRST IMPRESSIONS and SECOND GLANCES, follow...

SECOND GLANCES is the second book in Alexa Adams's A Tale of Less Pride and Prejudice series of sequels to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2012. It does not have a Christmas theme or setting, but I read it to get to the third book which features a...

THE TWELVE DOGS OF CHRISTMAS is David Rosenfelt's 2016 holiday entry in his Andy Carpenter series. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. When Martha "Pups" Boyer, who rescues mother dogs and their newborn puppies from shelters and fosters them, becomes the subject of a zoning...

MR. DARCY'S CHRISTMAS CAROL is Meg Osborne's 2017 holiday variation on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, with a nod toward Charles Dickens. It is available in digital format. After leaving Netherfield for London, the Bingleys and Fitzwilliam Darcy are caught in the social whirl of the...

KISSING CHRISTMAS GOODBYE is one of M. C. Beaton's long-running Agatha Raisin series set in Mircester in the Cotswolds. It was published in 2007 in print and digital editions. KISSING CHRISTMAS GOODBYE opens in October: "...she tried to fill her mind with thoughts of Christmas. Unlike quite a...

Zoe Burton's short story "Darcy's Perfect Present" is a Christmas variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. With sister Georgiana visiting a school friend over the holidays, Fitzwilliam Darcy accepts Charles Bingley's standing invitation and...

"The Fifth Christmas" by E. A. Allen bears a substantial subtitle: "A Personal Episode from the Journal of Colonel Sir Francis FitzMaurice, Concerning Events in Kent, in December 1909." Its title page identifies it as a Montclaire Christmas mystery. It was published in digital format in 2013...

Maria Grace's DARCY & ELIZABETH: CHRISTMAS 1811 is a 2017 variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. Jane Austen wrote nothing about the Christmas after the Bingley party's removal from Netherfield following the ball. Grace's story...

Michael Wood calls "The Fallen" a short story, though its length is closer to a novel. It features Detective Chief Inspector Matilda Darke, head of the Murder Investigation Team (MIT) of the South Yorkshire Police in Sheffield. The story opens on 7 December 2010 and ends on Christmas Day. The...

FROM LONGBOURN, WITH LOVE is Margaret Lynette Sharp's anthology of short story sequels to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The individual titles are: "Longbourn Revisited," "An Encounter at Longbourn," "A Party at Longbourn," "And from Longbourn, a Wedding Comes," and "Much Ado about...

"An Auspicious Day in Derbyshire" is Margaret Lynette Sharp's short story sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in free or inexpensive digital format in 2017. Lady Catherine de Bourgh descends on Pemberley to express her objection to Georgiana Darcy's marrying a social...

Zoe Burton's LILACS AND LAVENDER is a 2015 novella variant of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. It qualifies for seasonal reading because the story begins before Christmas. .The basic change from Austen's original concerns George Wickham...

THE EGYPTIAN CROSS MYSTERY is one of the early books in the mystery series featuring amateur criminologist and crime novelist Ellery Queen, written by Frederick Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee under the nom de plume Ellery Queen. Originally published in 1932, it was reissued in digital format...

PEMBERLEY PARK: THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS is Georgina Young-Ellis's 2017 holiday sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, incorporating Henry and Mary Crawford from Mansfield Park. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. Following the traditional Anglican church calendar...

BILBURY REVELS is the third book in Vernon Coleman's Young Country Doctor series set in Bilbury, a Devon village. Originally published in 1994, it was reissued in digital format in 2014. I was misled by its opening in a blizzard and the singing of Christmas songs (at a midsummer revue, but...