Get In the Holiday Mood With New Novels from Susan Wiggs & Richard Paul Evans

Susan Wiggs.
Lakeshore Christmas
When Maureen Davenport, a prim and proper librarian, is forced to direct Avalon's annual holiday pageant with Eddie Haven, a recovering former child-star who hates Christmas with a passion, she prays for a Christmas miracle.

Richard Paul Evans.
The Christmas list
The best-selling author of The Christmas Box and Grace returns with a new heartwarming novel for the holiday season, a story of hope, love, and faith.

Val McDermid.
Beneath the bleeding
Recovering in the hospital after the city of Bradfield's star soccer player is poisoned and several are killed in a stadium explosion, Dr. Tony Hill tries to make sense of the case, which is complicated by the fact that his usual ally, DCI Carol Jordan, has been pushed to the margins of the investigation by intelligence services.

Tracie Peterson.
Dawn's prelude
When newly widowed Lydia Sellers discovers that she is the sole recipient of her husband's fortune, her adult stepchildren battle to regain the inheritance for themselves, and, determined to put the memories of a painful past behind her, Lydia travels to join her aunt in Alaska, where the unexpected awaits her.

Christi Phillips.
The Devlin diary
When a Trinity College history professor is found murdered with a torn page of a seventeenth-century diary in his hand, fellow Claire Donovan and historian Andrew Kent believe his death may be linked to a series of unsolved killings in 1670s London.

Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain.
A fatal feast : a murder, she wrote mystery
Suffering from writer's block with both her novel's deadline and Thanksgiving fast approaching, Jessica Fletcher and her friend, Scotland Yard Inspector George Sutherland, stumble upon the body of a man with a carving knife stuck in his chest.

Mercedes Lackey.
Gwenhwyfar : the white spirit
Gwenhwyfar, the King's daughter, chooses the path of the Warrior, but is called upon by the Ladies of the Well to become Arthur's queen, and faces temptation, trechery, intrigue, and betrayal.

Joanne Fluke.
Plum pudding murder : a Hannah Swensen mystery
When Larry Jaeger, the owner of the Crazy Elf Christmas Tree Lot, is murdered, bakery owner Hannah Swenson, during the busiest time of the year, must sift through a wealth of suspects before a murderous Scrooge strikes again.

Laura Childs.
Tragic magic
Scrapbook shop owner Carmela helps her friend renovate an old mansion in New Orleans into a crafty haunted house for tourists, but finds herself investigating a series of murders when a flaming body comes crashing through the window.

Kerry Greenwood.
Trick or treat : a Corinna Chapman mystery
Greenwood's Melbourne baker deals with a competitor bakery, her boyfriends gorgeous ex-girlfriend, and a strange outbreak of madness which seems to be centered on her street.