on November 18, 2025
2025 Fall/Winter book recommendations from your faithful reviewer and Poisoned Pen Bookstore bookseller, John Charles, and from New York Times bestsellers Jayne Ann Krentz and Christina Dodd. Think gift books for your mom, your best friends, everyone on your holiday list! MURDER AT DONWELL ABBEY by Vanessa Kelly https://store.poisonedpen.com/item/N72jacmRMGB1TATUzwq0dg THE SHOP ON HIDDEN LANE by… Read More
on December 28, 2024
on November 13, 2024
Winter: Holidays, too much food, family and friends, snow (depends on where you live!) fallen leaves to crunch under your feet, and most important — Christmas and winter holiday books! Those really warm fuzzy stories of families who get along…or don’t and murder each other. 😁 🎄 We’re not talking real life (I hope!) We’re… Read More
on December 25, 2023
on December 25, 2022
on December 25, 2021
Did you know I receive fan mail about my newsletters? Join for guaranteed laughs and a free short story! I’d love to welcome you! Updated Christina Dodd Printable book list sorted by genre/series/in order. Christina Dodd Books by Series list with clickable covers. More holiday photos and articles.
on November 25, 2021
THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER begins, “The Herdmans were absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world. They lied and stole and smoked cigars (even the girls) and talked dirty and hit little kids and cussed their teachers and took the name of the Lord in vain and set fire to Fred Shoemaker’s… Read More
on November 16, 2021
If you’ve been reading my newsletters and blogs, you know that The Husband and I live on 5 ½ acres in the northwest corner of Washington state, and every year we go out into our woods, cut down a Douglas fir and use it as our Christmas tree. What you may not know is that we’ve been in our… Read More
on November 11, 2021
The Husband and I live on 5½ acres in the woods and every year, we scour our property for precisely the right Christmas tree. Tall, perfectly shaped… Well *tall* anyway. This year we found our tree below the road. When I say *below,* I mean the slope is slide-down-on-your-butt vertical. The Husband and I, dressed… Read More
on November 3, 2021
When we moved into our new house, to celebrate, we got this Christmas tree. It was too tall for our great room … and the ceiling’s 16′ 8″. Listen, don’t laugh, our friends Donna and Monty gave it to us, so it was free and we didn’t have to chop it down. The Husband cut… Read More
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