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December brings holiday fare

With December well under way, here’s a roundup of some holiday-oriented books.

→"Dashing Through the Snow” (Simon & Schuster, $23 ) by Mary and Carol Higgins Clark: The mother-daughter (respectively) mystery writers set their fifth yuletide suspense novel in a small New Hampshire town. Two visiting sleuths must solve a puzzle involving a multimillion-dollar lottery ticket and a missing person.

→"The Spy Who Came for Christmas” (Vanguard, $15.95 ) by David Morrell: The award-winning thriller novelist tells a Christmas Eve story about a wounded American spy in Santa Fe, N.M., who is trying to keep a baby safe from kidnapping by the Russian mob. He finds help from a single mother and her son, 12, who face a different kind of danger.

→"Six Geese a-Slaying” (St. Martin’s, $22.95 ) by Donna Andrews: The 10th title in the series involves amateur sleuth Meg Langslow’s search for a Santa killer (she hopes he won’t spoil the Christmas pageant).

→"A Christmas Grace” (Ballantine, $18 ) by Anne Perry: The novelist’s sixth Christmas-themed book is serious but fast-moving.

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