<div>Have yourself a mysterious little Christmas with fifteen whodunits from New York Times&ndash;bestselling authors Sharyn McCrumb, Mary Higgins Clark, and more! Peace on Earth isn&rsquo;t everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea in Charlotte MacLeod&rsquo;s &ldquo;A Cozy for Christmas.&rdquo; Peter Lovesey&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Haunted Crescent&rdquo; delivers a holiday ghost story with a twist. A training session for department-store Santas turns up Saint Nicks who are anything but angels in Isaac Asimov&rsquo;s &ldquo;Ho, Ho, Ho.&rdquo; Marcia Muller&rsquo;s &ldquo;Silent Night&rdquo; finds a tough private investigator searching San Francisco&rsquo;s Tenderloin district&mdash;and discovering something unexpected. A long-married couple&rsquo;s ship finally comes in&mdash;only to spring a mysterious leak&mdash;in Mary Higgins Clark&rsquo;s &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the Ticket.&rdquo; Scottish superstition catches up with a cat burglar in Sharyn McCrumb&rsquo;s &ldquo;A Wee Doch and Doris.&rdquo; These and many more stories will keep you turning pages and gathering evidence of yuletide mayhem. So when holiday shopping brings out your inner Grinch, hunker down with a hot toddy&mdash;and leave the murder to the experts. This festive collection includes stories by Charlotte MacLeod, Peter Lovesey, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Eric Wright, John Lutz, Howard Engel, Mary Higgins Clark, Bill Pronzini, Sharyn McCrumb, Henry Slesar, Edward D. Hoch, Aaron Elkins, Susan Dunlap, Isaac Asimov, and Marcia Muller.</div>

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Mistletoe Mysteries

<div>This award-winning horror anthology is the &ldquo;yardstick by which future ghost fiction will be measured&rdquo;&mdash;featuring Tanith Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, and others (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Award-winning anthologist Ellen Datlow&mdash;praised by William Gibson as &ldquo;the genre&rsquo;s sharpest assembler of strange, dark fictions&rdquo;&mdash;is determined to prove that ghost stories still possess the power to chill modern readers to the marrow. So she reached out to a list of varied and talented authors and invited them to scare the heck out of her. The resulting anthology redefines the ghost story, venturing beyond the accustomed tropes and into horror&rsquo;s true realm: the unknown. The Dark takes a nuanced and disquieting look at the tormented and unquiet dead; the darkness in us, the living; and the sometimes tenuous boundary between the two. Under the covers of The Dark, you will find a gathering of sixteen unique ghost stories, deftly penned by authors versed in the argot of the damned, including Ramsey Campbell, Jeffrey Ford, Glen Hirshberg, Kelly Link, Sharyn McCrumb, Lucius Shepard, and Gahan Wilson. This is the stuff nightmares are made of. Winner of the International Horror Guild Award for Best Anthology of the Year</div>

The Dark

<div>A sci-fi convention gets a dose of true crime in this Edgar Award-winning mystery by the New York Times bestselling author of the Ballad novels.When Virginia Tech professor James Owen Mega wrote a fictional account of his real-life research, he hardly expected it to get published. But when a publisher changed the title of his novel to Bimbos of the Death Sun, James&mdash;under the pen name Jay Omega&mdash;becomes an overnight sci-fi star. Invited to the annual fan convention Rubicon, James is both a fish out of water and a Guest of Honor among the Trekkies and sword-wielding cosplayers. But he&rsquo;s not the only VIP at the overrun hotel. Revered fantasy author Appin Dungannon never misses a Rubicon&mdash;or a chance to belittle his legions of devotees. But when Dungannon turns up dead, police wonder if a die-hard fan finally turned to murder. As the list of suspects grows and hucksters hunt for the victim&rsquo;s autograph, James devises an ingenious way to catch a killer.</div>

Bimbos of the Death Sun

<div>From the New York Times bestselling author of Prayers the Devil Answers and The Ballad of Tom Dooley, a &ldquo;fascinating historical fiction novel you won&rsquo;t be able to put down&rdquo; (Bustle) based on one of the strangest murder trials in American history&#8212;the case of the Greenbrier Ghost. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930: Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P.D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Testing a new talking cure for insanity, Boozer encourages his elderly patient to share his experiences as the first black attorney to practice law in 19th-century West Virginia. His memorable case: defending a white man on trial for the murder of his young bride&#8212;a case that the prosecution based on the testimony of a ghost. Greenbrier, West Virginia, 1897: Beautiful, willful Zona Heaster has always lived in the mountains. Despite her mother&rsquo;s misgivings, Zona marries the handsome Erasmus Trout Shue, Greenbrier&rsquo;s newest resident and blacksmith. Her mother learns of her daughter&rsquo;s death weeks later. A month after the funeral, Zona&rsquo;s mother makes a chilling claim to the county prosecutor: her daughter was murdered, and she was told this by none other than Zona&rsquo;s ghost... With her unique and &ldquo;real knack for crafting full-bodied characters and using folklore to construct compelling plots&rdquo; (Booklist), Sharyn McCrumb effortlessly demonstrates her place among the finest Southern writers at work today.</div>

The Unquiet Grave

<div>Literary works honoring the role of women and quilting in history—from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, and others. This collection of stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the making of quilts—written from 1845 to the present, mainly by American women—documents women’s literary history. Featuring the work of Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, and many others, Quilt Stories is a colorful literary album of stories, poems, and plays that celebrate quilting as a pattern in women’s history. These stories—grouped under the themes of memory, courtship, struggle, mystery, and wisdom—reflect the importance of quilting in the lives of American women, not only as a practical craft and a creative outlet, but also as an integral part of the social community. “The 28 works included in Quilt Stories restore to women a part of their history and their sense of community, an important service in a present time in which quilting has perhaps become a more private and individual art, though it still serves widely as a medium for social exchange and cooperative endeavor.” —Appalachian Quarterly “Macheski has pieced together a variety of literary fabrics into a unique design which represents women’s struggle for identity in a masculine world.” —Benton, Arkansas Courier “Each writing shares a glimpse of what quilting means to those people who practice the art and how it helps us to see, remember, learn, know and express our feelings.” —Quilt World “An innovative approach to writing the history of women.” —Northwest Ohio Quarterly</div>

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