Holiday Misadventures: Tragedy, Murder and Mystery

by Roxanne Willems Snopek, Joyce Glasner, Johanna Bertin

The Christmas season is the one time of year that we all put aside the demands of the everyday to celebrate with friends and family; share stories, warm memories, and traditions; and feast on home-cooked food. But what happens when life simply won't pause in the name of good cheer and festive revelry? This unusual holiday collection brings to life the tales of Christmases gone Christmastime castaways dreaming of holiday ham, a Sable Island mystery, murder and mayhem in yuletide Yukon, spirits of Christmas of a different kind, and many others. Merry misadventures!

168 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2006

About the author

Roxanne Willems Snopek has been writing professionally for two decades and is the author of 8 books and more than 150 articles. Her non-fiction has appeared in a wide variety of publications, from the Vancouver Sun and Reader's Digest to newsletters for Duke, Cornell and Tufts universities. She lives in Abbotsford, BC, surrounded by family and a variety of dogs, cats, birds and fish.

Reviews

[Taveri · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wonder who was the marketing wizard that came up with the idea to put together nine disaster events as a Christmas Cheer book? As one can tell by the number of ratings the anthology must have flown off the shelves. Three of the better stories were by Rich Mole (who specialized in Klondike tales), four were by Andrew Hind (two in collaboration with Maria De Silva); one by Joyce Glasner; and my favourite, a fictionalized ghost story, by Johanna Bertin.