The Island

The Island by Ragnar Jónasson (translated by Victoria Cribb) is a double murder mystery, which, for the most part takes place on the tiny island

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Star Island

Carl Hiaasen is a Floridian author and I always see his novels in the local interest area of Florida bookshops, such as Books & Books

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Go Ask Alice

I read Go Ask Alice, by its allegedly anonymous author, when I was in high school over forty-one years ago. In the early 1980’s I

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A Country Christmas

A Country Christmas is the name of a collection of two novels by Debbie Macomber, Buffalo Valley and Return to Promise. Unlike the last collection

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Holiday Lights

Holiday Lights is a collection of three stories, all of which had been published independently. I read all three of them in succession, starting with

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Christmas Wishes

I was drawn to Christmas Wishes by Sue Moorcroft partly because the setting is Stockholm, specifically Gamla Stan. In this old area of the city

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Can This Be Christmas?

Can This Be Christmas? by Debbie Macomber is the second, and shorter, of two stories found in this collection. I had read The Perfect Christmas

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