title: Murder Fir Christmas (Christmas Tree Valley Mysteries) (Volume 1)
author: Joyce Lavene
description: Joyce and Jim Lavene write award-winning, bestselling mystery and urban fantasy fiction as themselves, J.J. Cook, and Ellie Grant. Their first mystery novel, Last Dance, won the Masters Choice Award for best first mystery novel in 1999. Their romance, Flowers in the Night, was nominated for the Frankfurt Book Award in 2000. They have written and published more than 80 novels that are sold worldwide for Harlequin, Penguin, Amazon, and Simon and Schuster. They have also published hundreds of non-fiction articles for national and regional publications. They live in Midland, North Carolina with their family and their rescue petsRudi, Stan Lee, and Quincy. Visit them at: www.joyceandjimlavene.com www.facebook.com/joyceandjimlavene http://amazon.com/author/jlavene https://twitter.com/AuthorJLavene
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  **MURDER AT CHRISTMAS**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ALSO AVAILABLE
  
  
  _Murder under the Christmas Tree_
  
  
  _Murder on Christmas Eve_
  
  
  _A Very Murderous Christmas_
  
  
  _Murder in Midsummer_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # MURDER AT CHRISTMAS
  
  
  Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season
  
  
  Selected by Cecily Gayford
  
  
  _Margery Allingham • Ellis Peters  
  Edmund Crispin • John Mortimer  
  Nicholas Blake • Michael Innes  
  Gillian Linscott • Ethel Lina White  
  Julian Symons • Dorothy L. Sayers_
  
  
  ![image](../Images/pub.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  First published in Great Britain in 2019 by
  
  
  PROFILE BOOKS LTD
  
  
  3 Holford Yard
  
  
  Bevin Way
  
  
  London WC1X 7JQ
  
  
  _[www.profilebooks.com](http://www.profilebooks.com)_
  
  
  Selection copyright © Profile Books, 2019
  
  
  See [Credits](../Text/credit.html#credit) for individual stories copyright
  information
  
  
  The moral right of the authors has been asserted.
  
  
  All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved
  above, no part