Just in time for the holidays ~favorite fiction~

Discover the perfect holiday reads with our list of favorite fiction books! Cozy up with heartwarming stories and festive tales just in time for the season.

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The Christmas Garden Affair

by Ann Ripley

The latest in Ripley's engaging gardening mystery series finds PBS star and amateur sleuth Louise Eldridge digging for clues when a rival garden show host is found murdered at the First Lady's Christmas conference.
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A Cold Christmas

by Charlene Weir

The bitter chill of December in Hampstead, Kansas, is joined by a flu epidemic that's taken out half of police chief Susan Wren's force. Her hopes for a crime freeze are dashed when the body of a repairman is found stuffed in the basement furnace in the home of a single mom. His identification leads to a few dark surprises and Susan must harness all of her street smarts to pull off her own Christmas miracle. Martin's Press.
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Mystery for Christmas

by Richard Dalby

Mystery lovers can unwrap this collection of 23 classic holiday suspense tales by such masters of mystery as Margery Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, Roger Johnson, and Joseph Shearing.
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When Christmas Comes

by Debbie Macomber

When strangers Emily Springer and Charles Brewster decide to escape their lives and anonymously exchange homes over the holidays, chaos and hilarious confusion ensure . . . as does love.
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The Gift

by Nora Roberts

Home for Christmas -- All I want for Christmas.
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Crooks, Crimes and Christmas

by Susan Slater

This original collection presents four festive stories of foul play by mystery writers Susan Slater, Ed Gorman, Irene Marcuse, and Michael Jahn. Original.
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The White House Christmas Mystery

by Carole Marsh

When Christina and Grant visit the White House for a special Christmastime tour, they make new friends as they get lost behind the scenes, hear reports of terrorists in the building, and learn about the President's home and the people who have lived there.
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A Visit From Sir Nicholas

by Victoria Alexander

Everyone knows that an Effington always getsher way ... but this time it's not going to be easy! Lady Elizabeth Effington simply could not suitably feel the joy of the Christmas season. Ten years had passed since she had boldly declared her love for Sir Nicholas Collingsworth. He rebuffed her and set out to seek his fortunes, while Elizabeth was left a woman scorned. Now, she discovers in horror that the inheritance she's managed beautifully was never hers to control. No, power over her finances lay in the hands of the last man she ever wants to see again: Nicholas! But running Elizabeth's life isn't part of Nick's plans. He's intrigued when he discovers that the frivolous and flighty girl he once knew has turned into a beautiful and capable woman. Nick vows to woo -- and win -- her, and while she seems unmoved by his fervent seduction, he swears he will not rest until she accepts that most precious gift of all -- the gift of love.
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The Christmas Thief

by Mary Higgins Clark

Lottery winner-turned amateur sleuth Alvirah Meehan joins forces with private detective Regan Reilly to track down the ninety-foot tree, destined for display in Rockefeller Center.
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A Christmas Visitor

by Anne Perry

Renowned mathematician Henry Rathbone investigates a shocking murder that rocks the tranquility of Christmas at an English estate.
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Season's Revenge

by Henry Kisor

When one of his small town's leading citizens, Paul Passoja, is killed in an apparent bear attack, Lakota Deputy Sheriff Steve Martinez becomes suspicious and launches an unoffical investigation.
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Le Fin

by Victoria Taylor Murray

The Lambert Series (Thief Of Hearts, Forbidden and Friendly Enemies), is centered around one earth-shattering week in the life of Nouri St. Charles Sommers, a beautiful young woman that rushed into marriage with a mysterious billionaire...a man she knew nothing about. Two short years later, Nourias fairytale marriage suddenly turns into a nightmare changing her life forever a].Falling in love a] out of love a] in love againa]a fairytale marriage turned nightmarea]implicated and then cleared in two gruesome murdersa]surviving a death threat after being forced into hiding from a stalkera]Nourias one week from hell continues. Now six weeks later, Nourias life continues to spin out of control, drawing the reader deeper and deeper into the turmoil of The Lambert Series with the final book to the series, Le Fin. Nourias billionaire husband, Ethan Sommers, has been shot and killed. Her former lover, high-powered attorney Clint Chamberlain, is feared dead after his car plummets off a bridge in Paris during a rain storm, and if those things arenat bad enough for her to deal with, Nouri suddenly discovers that the man she has finally chosen over both Clint Chamberlain and Charles Mason, homicide detective Gabe Baldwin, has returned to Boston to wed his former fiancA(c)e after an argument Nouri and Gabe had while they were still in France.
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A Classic Christmas Crime

by Tim Heald

A lethal collection of Christmas tales featuring original mysteries by:P.D. James * Simon Brett * Susan Moody * David Williams * Robert Barnard * Margaret Yorke * Nicole Swengley * Mike Seabrook * Peter Lovesey * H.R.F. Keating * Tim Heald * Liza Cody * Catherine Aird
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The Real Thing

by Kay Hooper

This New York Times bestselling author's two novels of romance with a dash of suspense--Enemy Mine and The Haviland Touch--are together for the first time.