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Murderous Christmas Reads

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 Every Christmas, there are particular books that I re-read. For me, they tend to be murder mysteries because nothing says "Good Tidings" like solving whodunnit! Come up the steps into my warm parlor.  I'll make coffee, tea, or hot chocolate. Then let's read until our eyeballs fall out. I pick the following by J D Robb, because all my favorite characters show up for Roarke and Eve's glamorous Christmas party. There is plenty of romance and holiday ambience interspersed with the methodical if  frantic seeking for homicidal type people. There is nothing like J D Robb's descriptive art.  Her dialogue is unparalleled for humor and sarcasm.  Memory In Death This book takes Eve down a dark lane in her past when a former foster mom looks her up to renew and rehash--and rewrite---old times. Or to profit from them.  Festive In Death Eve is startled and a little dismayed that Morris has brought DeWinter to the Christmas party.  “She gestured to the ballroom. “Th...
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Survivor in Death

 When Eve Dallas is called to the scene of a gruesome whole-family murder, she discovers one child who escaped the killers' notice. Nixie Swisher latches on like a barnacle to her.  As Eve and her team solve the murder, readers see her evolution, and change of relationship with Sommerset.   I love how JD Robb orchestrates this series.  Yes, this is the eloquent Nora Roberts writing in a totally different style.  These books are some that I'll own and reread from time to time for the breath-taking character development she chronicles almost in short-hand.    
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The Silkworm

 “Winter had slid in the night like a glacier over London. A hard frost had iced the outside of his attic window and the temperature inside his rooms, with their ill-fitting windows and doors and the total lack of insulation under the roof, had plummeted.” — The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike Book 2) by Robert Galbraith https://a.co/fb1O081 “Only one subject had ever matched Charlotte for the fascination it exercised over him: unnatural death.” — The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike Book 2) by Robert Galbraith https://a.co/62alGx9
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Career of Evil

 “You could find beauty nearly anywhere if you stopped to look for it, but the battle to get through the days made it easy to forget that this totally cost-free luxury existed.” — Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike Book 3) by Robert Galbraith https://a.co/fB6yN2w I’m continuing to read these all out of order. The murderer in this one is the most repellent so far. But the prose is maybe more lovely. 
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