The Kindle Does Halloween: Mystery Fiction for the Holiday

Once the trick-or-treaters are gone and you've eaten all those Snickers bars you cleverly held back for yourself, relax, curl up with your Kindle, and enjoy one of these Halloween-themed books for folks like me who enjoy a good mystery with a Halloween theme.

A Catered Halloween, by Isis Crawford. Kensington Books. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $4.47. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"With the promise of a hefty commission and some valuable word-of-mouth for their catering business, A Little Taste of Heaven, sisters Bernadette and Libby Simmons agree to cater the charity haunted house being staged at the old Peabody School. But when wealthy socialite Amethyst Applegate is found dead in the haunted house, Bernie and Libby wonder if a murderer might also be lurking about Peabody's gloomy halls." - Amazon.

Ladies Courting Trouble, by Dolores Stewart Riccio. Kinsington. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (8 reviews). Kindle edition $8.55. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"When Cass Shipton, a Wiccan, is invited to speak to a neighborhood church's Ladies' League, she has no idea that hemlock-laced brownies are on the menu. Not everyone survives the murder attempt, and soon Cass, owner of Earthlore Herbal Preparations and Cruelty-Free Cosmetics, and her brave Wiccan cohorts - wise woman-librarian Fiona Ritchie, doll designer Deidre Ryan, wealthy animal advocate Heather Devlin, and television chef Phillipa Stern - are on the case... A selection of Riccio's wonderful recurring characters add to the fun, including Freddie, the young telekinetic computer whiz; Tip, a Native American teenager and expert tracker; Cass' Greek husband, Joe, a militant Greenpeace activist; and Scruffy, the sassy, telepathic pooch." - Booklist.

Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man, by Wendelin Van Draanen. Knopf. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (14 reviews) Kindle edition $5.20. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"What does Frankenstein have that a skeleton wants? Sounds like a bad Halloween joke. But Sammy Keyes isn't laughing. She's the one who collided with the skeleton while he was making his getaway. And she's the one who discovered Frankenstein tied to a chair with his head twisted around. Someone's taken 'trick or treat' way too far. When Sammy tries to puzzle out what really happened Halloween night, she's amazed at how many people have something to hide - and how far they'll go to keep their disguises intact." - from the hardcover. edition.
"If Kinsey Millhone ever hires a junior partner, Sammy Keyes will be the first candidate on the list. She's feisty, fearless, and funny. A top-notch investigator!" - Sue Grafton.

North Pole Lost and Other Holiday Stories, by William H. Cooke. Undertaker Press. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $1.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Strange. Disturbing. Bizarre even. That is the world through William H. Cooke's eyes. And he shares his decidedly different vision of culture and politics in these four short stories and two novelettes. From a zombie family Thanksgiving, through Santa's failing holy war on the Leprechauns, to the inquest into the death of the Easter Bunny lead by a disillusioned, dope-smoking cat prosecutor named Edgar, the author presents a disturbing world set against the horror that is the holidays. Curl up with your back against the wall and visit..." - Amazon.

Halloween Rain (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), by Nancy Holder and Christopher Golden. Simon Spotlight Entertainment. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (53 reviews). Kindle edition $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in the all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. Around Sunnydale, they say a scarecrow saturated with Halloween rain will come alive and slaughter anyone in sight. (Lovely place, Sunnydale.) Buffy's best friends, Xander and Willow, used to think the tale was nonsense - but after a few adventures with Buffy, they're not so sure. Even without a maniacal scarecrow, a Sunnydale Halloween is a truly horrific happening. There are enough zombies and vampires about, ready to party hearty and eat some brains, to keep the Slayer and her friends up all night. And then rain starts to fall..." - Amazon.

Hallowe'en Party, by Agatha Christie. Publisher. Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (37 reviews). Kindle edition $4.79. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Mystery writer Ariadne Oliver has been invited to a Hallowe'en party at Woodleigh Common. One of the other guests is an adolescent girl known for telling tall tales of murder and intrigue - and for being generally unpleasant. But when the girl, Joyce, is found drowned in an apple-bobbing tub, Mrs Oliver wonders after the fictional nature of the girl's claim that she had once witnessed a murder. Which of the party guests wanted to keep her quiet is a question for Ariadne's friend Hercule Poirot. But unmasking a killer this Hallowe'en is not going to be easy - for there isn't a soul in Woodleigh who believes the late little storyteller was actually murdered." - Amazon.

Halloween, by Melanie Jackson. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (1 review). Kindle edition $2.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Do you remember your scariest Halloween ever? James Henderson does. It was the year he turned ten. What started out as a sensible plan to collect the most candy while trick-or-treating soon turned into a terrifying adventure for James, his two friends and his kid brother, Ricky." - Amazon.