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Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today writing about how I came to invent "the Twelve Shopping Days of Christmas" for my 2009 cozy mystery, A Wee Christmas Homicide. This was to be the third book in a three-book contract for the Liss MacCrimmon Mysteries, and my editor had requested a Christmas book. Since I had…

Clodagh Finn: Is Women’s Little Christmas really a day to celebrate? There should be no such thing as women's issues, only human rights issues, writes Clodagh Finn Marian Finucane and Nuala O'Faolain were   supremely talented women who fought to achieve social change in Ireland. Wed, 06 Jan, 2021 - 07:00 Happy Nollaig na mBan! I want to rejoice and be happy and embrace Women’s Little Christmas, which falls today, but something is holding me back. Perhaps it’s the memory of the look on my late mother’s face when we suggested marking Wee Christmas, as it is also known. With an almost...

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, pondering why so many publishers of cozy mystery series, including humorous mysteries, think Christmas is a good time to commit murder. In real life, of course, there are plenty of homicides over the holidays, mostly committed by those nearest and dearest to the victim. Not to make light of it, but stress is a killer. This year, with large family gatherings being discouraged due to Covid-19, it will be interesting to see if Christmas crime statistics are much different from the norm. Getting back to fictional murder and mayhem, let me tell you about my...