“A Christmas Deliverance” is Anne Perry’s coming-of-age story of the triumph of love and hope over doom and gloom in Victorian England. His main hero is Dr. Crowe, an unmarried Londoner who walks his Thames neighborhood “looks like a gentleman who has fallen on hard times.” A doctor runs a clinic for the poor, with little or no charge for his services. When he finds a young woman he previously saved from a car accident beaten by her fiance, he decides to save her from an arranged marriage he fears.
A Christmas Rescue
Ballantine Book
224 pages
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Right after Christmas. Crowe has until the holiday to discover the truth behind the crimes that forced the girl’s father to sell his future for her safety. Will Monk, the doctor’s young assistant, oversees the work of the office while Crowe consults a network of former patients to learn the facts of an insurance fraud involving fire, stolen property and a dead night watchman.
“Careful, Crowe,” said Monk’s foster father, the chief constable of the Thames River. “Men like it [these criminals] Learn how to delete names. A police raided a shop on the river and a deadly fight ensued. Even more exciting—spoilers ahead—are Ms.
What child is this? A Sherlock Holmes Christmas adventure
Collins Crime Club
240 pages
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What better gift this season than a new Sherlock Holmes Christmas case? Bonnie MacBird’s own “What Child Is This?”, illustrated by Frank Cho, takes us back to 221B Baker Street in a snowy Victorian December. A woman’s nightly cries bring Holmes and Dr. Watson the opportunity to save a young child from a predator. The villain escapes, and Holmes decides to protect the child by tracking down the suspect – while he and Watson investigate the disappearance of a rich man’s abused child.
Although Holmes complains about holiday traditions (upon receiving Watson’s gift, he says “Bah, humbug”), he shows incredible love in the execution of his duties and moves Watson observes: “My friend . . . probably embodies the spirit of Christmas better than any man I know.
Another case presented by Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Mystery Printer
224 pages
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In 1886, a year before Holmes was first published, readers in England and America were exposed to a terrifying mystery by Robert Louis Stevenson. “The New Annotated Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” edited with a foreword and notes by Leslie S. Klinger, celebrates and explains this long story and its stages and changes. movie.
Dear reader, I buried them and other stories
Soho Crime
384 pages
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Peter Lovesey, a contemporary master of suspense, makes a Sherlockian pun in the title of his current Christmas murder novel, “A Three Pie Problem.” It is one of the 19 items in Mr. Lovesey’s “Reader, I Buried Them,” a brilliant collection that includes “A Monologue for Mystery Lovers,” featuring Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.
Marple: Twelve New Mysteries
William Morrow
384 pages
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Talking about the noble village sleuth of Dame Agatha, “Marple: Twelve New Mysteries” offers the stories of contemporary stars such as Elly Griffiths, Val McDermid and Kate Mosse. Of great interest is Ruth Ware’s excellent “Miss Marple’s Christmas.” Those interested in learning the real-life story of Marple’s creator will be well served by Lucy Worsley’s compelling autobiography “Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman” (Pegasus, 415 pages, $29.95) . Ms. Worsley captures his subject’s life in a vivid, respectful, and even manner.
Murder after Christmas
Alcohol Pen Press
352 pages
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The pseudonymous Rupert Latimer, another Golden Age mystery writer, never became a household name. But his 1944 caper “Murder After Christmas” has been resurrected for the British Library Crime Classics series. Full of eccentric families, oddball events and screwball dialogues, the book is a lot of fun.
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard presents eight hard-hitting thrillers in trade paperback. Among the hard-hitting songs are Ross Macdonald’s “The Chill,” Dashiell Hammett’s “The Maltese Falcon,” Chester Himes’s “A Rage in Harlem” and James M. Cain’s “The Postman Always Rings Twice.” Each features a new introduction by James Ellroy.
Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds
PM Press
400 pages
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Kenneth Wishnia and Chantelle Aimée Osman’s “Jewish Noir II,” the sequel to a well-received 2015 anthology, collects 23 fascinating stories from around the world. Robin Hemley’s “The Hanukkah Killer” is a must-see at the end of the year.
God: Deluxe Edition
Putnam
432 pages
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No Mafia-fiction buff can resist Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather” in a new hardcover edition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film adaptation. Peter Benchley’s 1974 thriller “Jaws” (Folio Society, 303 pages, $60), made into a blockbuster movie the next year, appears half a century later in a book nice slip-case with a new introduction by the author’s widow. Many agree that the late John le Carré’s “A Perfect Spy” (Folio Society, 589 pages, $120) is his masterpiece. That 1986 record gets a deluxe edition in this classic edition.
Standing on the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
Soho Crime
308 pages
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Mick Herron’s Slough House group of British spies face their usual dangers in “Standing by the Wall,” a collection of five stories. The previously unreleased title piece is a Christmas interlude that turns into a high-tech conversion of an archive image. Memories, however, are not easy in space.
Death on the winter road
Soho Crime
288 pages
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Rounding out the season’s offerings is Francine Mathews’ “Death on a Winter Stroll,” seven in a series set in Nantucket and Police Chief Meredith Folger. In a three-day holiday celebration, the island welcomes not only the US secretary of state but also the cast and crew of a Hollywood TV series. Multi-generational characters, two gruesome deaths and the author’s captivating prose help solve a number one murder mystery.
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