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Check out all the goodies my incredible friend and #litsypenpal @Litlady sent me for Christmas! She really knows her books and worked her magic again this year. Four new books plus some delicious tea, The Nightmare Before Christmas ornaments, and a beautiful Jane Austen candle that smells amazing. Gardenia is one of my favorite scents. Thank you so much dear friend! I‘m so incredibly grateful! Happy holidays to you all great readers!

Really enjoyed this! It's fun & witty, intriguing & ridiculous, well-written & nicely observed. I was entertained & absorbed for the duration & I couldn't really ask for more! Some great characters here - Hetty Gaunt & her pet raven, the fabulous DeeDee (who I want to be) and Frank Grasby, who is funny & flawed, with hinted at hidden depths despite his apparent shallowness. And his father - who is just hilarious! Plot is twisty madness too!

Recent acquisition for our personal library.

I love these Pitkin Pictorials published in the 1960s.

Next up...more murder! I've really got a taste for it this festive season 🎄💀🎄...in a purely literary way, of course!

This Barnes & Noble 5.00 read is a holly of a read so far!🎄

Reading a murder mystery for Christmas 🎄

I fell for the B&N marketing ploy and got this for $5. The last time I did this, I wasn‘t disappointed.

An enjoyable cosy mystery set in a beautiful part of the world, although I do say so myself being a Yorkshire lass! The descriptions of the countryside are vivid and give a good sense of place. I like the cast of eclectic characters. The murder mystery itself held my attention and I thought I‘d guessed the culprit but how wrong I was! The plot is well put together and it made me chuckle in a few places. A series to continue!

Well this one didn‘t end up where I expected! I enjoyed it, though the main character‘s casual pettiness and 1950s prejudices were annoying, even in a period mystery. I don‘t have much patience for it. I really enjoyed the audiobook narrator and loved my #immersionreading of print + audio. (And no, it‘s not really a holiday book 🤨)

The first in the Dales Detective series. I‘m reading this with my local book group.