If you're one of those good boys and girls with all of your shopping, decorating, and baking done, then you should settle down with a good holiday-themed mystery as your reward. Janet Rudolph at Mystery Readers International has suggestions for Hanukkah and Christmas, part 1 and part 2. Sharon Wildwind, over at Poe's Deadly Daughters, has a few more recommendations, and Eurocrime has an offering by the late Magdalen Nabb (among a few others).
If you haven't been a good boy or girl, then you're probably one of those shoppers who waits until the last minute. In that case, the following suggestions from Cornelia Read at Murderati might be helpful. A "Hello Kitty" AK-47 or "Motha T" Mother Theresa-themed rocket-propelled grenade launcher, anyone?
If you haven't planned your holiday menu yet, you might get some tips from The Lady Killers where Ann Parker provides a Christmas menu from the Tappan House in Leadville, Colorado, circa 1879 (ummm...Buffalo Tongue with Sauce Perigord).
If you're feeling particularly Grinch-esque this holiday, then Declan Burke at Crime Always Pays has just the thought for you, with more gloom and doom about the publishing industry, in his posting titled "God Bless Us, Everyone."
And good and bad boys and girls alike will probably enjoy this little holiday mini-noir movie offering on YouTube, with a hat tip to the Seattle Mystery Bookshop.
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