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Kissing Christmas Goodbye (2007) by M. C. Beaton
I included this book in my Christmas Mystery TBR pile. You can see why with the title and the cover giving clear yuletide signals. The blurb indicates Agatha is in the midst of Christmas-day-dinner...
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Do Not Murder Before Christmas (1949) by Jack Iams
Jack Iams was the penname for Samuel H. Iams Jr (1910-1990) and yes, the surname does keep reminding me of the cat biscuit brand. Nevertheless, Iams was an American author who worked as a journalist...
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Reprint of the Year Award 2024: Nomination 2
Last week saw 10 bloggers, including myself, posting our first nominations for the 2024 Reprint of the Year Award. If you missed those posts here is a link to my own, which contains links to all the...
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Reprint of the Year Award 2024: Let’s Vote!
During the first three weeks of December I, along with nine other bloggers, have been trying our best to convince you to vote for our classic crime fiction reprint nominations. However now it is time...
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Who Killed Father Christmas? And Other Seasonal Mysteries (2023) ed. by...
With this post I have finally completed my short story collection reading goal for 2024. Back in January I posted about my intention to read a short story collection each month in order to reduce my...
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2024 Short Story Challenge Complete
I decided to keep my reading challenges simple this year and just focus on one. My goal was targeted at the growing pile of short story collections on my TBR pile, and my plan was to read one...
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What did Santa bring? 2024 Edition
I think I must have been extra good this year as Santa, or rather his league of assorted elves have done themselves proud this Christmas. My TBR (and arguably my to-be-played/watched) pile is freshly...
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2025 Reading Goal: My Green Penguin Challenge
For 2024 I set myself a personal goal to read 12 of the short story collections that had been languishing on my TBR pile for a while. Earlier this month I completed this challenge, and you can see my...
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Death in Paradise: The Jigsaw (Well, one of them anyways…)
I am sure that many of you are familiar with the BBC series, Death in Paradise, set on the island of Saint Marie (a fictional location in the Caribbean). You might also be aware of the spinoff series...
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Reprint of the Year Awards 2024: The Results
There are not many hours of 2024 left, so that must mean it is time to share the results for the latest Reprint of the Year awards. Thanks must go to the bloggers who took part, the readers who...
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