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"The Seventh Swann" is another of the Christmas stories in Roger Riccard's holiday anthology SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS, published in digital format in 2018. The collection consists of Riccard's fleshing out Dr. Watson's notes on previously unpublished cases of Sherlock...

CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY is Regina Jeffers's 2011holiday variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in both print and digital formats. Much concerned about Elizabeth's depressed spirits after twice miscarrying in two years of marriage, and with her again pregnant but refusing...

"Six Geese at a Gander (a.k.a. The Case of the Foul Fowl)" is short story in Roger Riccard's Christmas anthology SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS. The collection is explained by Riccard's inheriting from his grandmother Mrs. Ruby Hudson a trunk left to her by Dr. John Watson that...

"The Five Gold Rings" is the fifth short story in Roger Riccard's Christmas anthology SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS. He received from his grandmother Mrs. Ruby Watson a trunk containing Dr. Watson's notes on some Holmes's cases, which Riccard then completed for publication...

"The Four Calling Birds" is a holiday short story in Roger Riccard's SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS anthology. It was published in digital format in 2018. The of the anthology has Riccard editing the stories for publication, using incomplete case notes left to his grandmother...

"The Three French Henchman" is the third short story in Roger Riccard's holiday anthology SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS published in digital format in 2018. The premise of the collection is that Riccard received from his grandmother Mrs. Ruby Hudson a trunk of Dr. Watson's...

"The Two Turtedoves" is the second holiday short story in Roger Riccard's anthology SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS. It was published in digital format in 2018. The premise for the collection is that Riccard edited for publication Dr. Watson's case notes left to his grandmother...

"The Partridge in a Pearl Tree" is the opening holiday short story in Roger Riccard's anthology SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS. It is available in digital format issued in 2018. Its premise is that Riccard developed the stories from Dr. Watson's case notes left in a trunk...

HOW MR. DARCY SAVED CHRISTMAS is Rose Fairbanks's Christmas novella variant on Jane Austen'sPride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. During Christmas in Lambton with the Gardiners, visiting Aunt Gardiner's family, Elizabeth Bennet is disappointed in the lack of Christmas...

DECKED IN THE HALL is J. New's Christmas cozy published in digital format in 2018. It is the third book in her Finch and Fischer series. Penny Finch drives a mobile library van through the villages around Winstone. When much disliked Julia Hargreaves drops dead at a village Christmas event...

"A Very Meryton Christmas" is Olivia Kane's 2018 short story variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in digital format. After his insult at the Meryton Assembly, Elizabeth Bennet is most unimpressed with Fitzwilliam Darcy, but she's eager to promote Jane's relationship...

12 DAYS AT BLEAKLY MANOR is the first book in Michelle Griep's Once Upon a Dickens Christmas series. It was published in digital and print formats in 2017. The characters have Dickensian names and attributes, the plot bears little similarity to real life, sentiment about Christmas abounds, and...

MR. DARCY'S CHRISTMAS BRIDE is Elizabeth Goodrich's novella variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. When she hears Fitzwilliam Darcy's grumpy attitude toward the upcoming ball and Christmas at Netherfield, without knowing the reason he lacks the...

UNWRAPPING MR. DARCY is L. L. Diamond's Christmas retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice set in modern New York City. It was published in digital format in 2018. Diamond does an admirable job of updating the story. Darcy is head of Darcy Holdings; Elizabeth Bennet is a corporate lawyer...

STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS is the fourth book in Steven F. Havill's long-running Posadas County mystery series. The series initially centers on Undersheriff/Sheriff Bill Gastner, focuses on current Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman and Sheriff Bobby Torrez. Originally published in 2006, STATUTE OF...

MURDER SOLSTICE is the third book in Keith Moray's police procedural series set on West Uist, featuring Inspector Torquil "Piper" McKinnon of the Hebridean Constabulary. It is available in print and inexpensive or free digital formats. MURDER SOLSTICE opens at the winter solstice, when Calum...

"Trouble under the Mistletoe" is Rebecca Barrett's short story set on Christmas Eve in Turnout, Mississippi, published in 2017 in free or inexpensive Kindle format. It's part of Barrett's Familiar Legacy series. Trouble is the first person narrator of "Trouble under the Mistletoe," a black cat...

LARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING is Donna Andrews's annual Christmas novel in her Meg Langslow mystery series set in Caerphilly, Virginia. It was published in print and digital formats in 2018. Things are quiet in Caerphilly in the week leading up to Christmas. Local police are on the lookout for...

JANE AND THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS is the twelfth novel in Stephanie Barron's mystery series featuring Jane Austen as detective. It was published in digital and print formats in 2014. En route to Steventon Parsonage in Hampshire, to spend Christmas with Reverend James Austen and his family...

DEAD IN THE WATER is one of Ann Granger's Campbell and Carter mysteries featuring Detective Inspector "Jess" Campbell and Superintendent Ian Carter. It was originally published in 2015 and reissued in digital format in 2018. The setting is just before Christmas, but the season plays little part...