Time for Christmascrimes

 'Tis the season to be reading, and, in my case, to read crime fiction. Especially crime fiction set during Christmas.  We had #Noirvember last month, I think there should be a #Christmascrime. But I am currently stuck when it comes to crime fiction: I am a bit bored with the novel I am reading, as I feared I would be, and it's not in season enough. So I am wondering if I should take a break from it and reread one Christmas crime novel I already read. Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series has a few titlesset in the Season, including The Pusher. Just for the very first sentence, "Winter came in like an anarchist with a bomb", I think I want to get back to it. But there are so many others to rediscover. And I could check in my TBR list if there isn't one set during Christmas, or at least in winter.

Christmascrime

'Tis the season to be reading, so, as it is a Christmas tradition on Vraie Fiction, I suggest books to read for Yuletide. I suggested this one last year as well but as I'm revisiting it I thought I had to suggest it again. It is one of the early Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels (the third in fact) title The Pusher. It starts like this: "Winter came in like an anarchist with a bomb". McBain sure knew how to create the right impact. It's the perfect crime fiction read for both the Season and the season. And this is not one of your cozy whodunits. It has a merciless urban setting in a merciless time of year, plenty of violence, drug abuse, blood on snow and a Christmas miracle or two. I don't want to give anything away, but the afterword gives some details about the origins of said miracle. One of my favourite Christmastime reads. And it HAS to be read during Christmastime to be fully appreciated.

"The Pusher" for Christmas

'Tis the season to be reading (falalalala!). For today's countdown to Christmas reading suggestion, another crime novel. It is a favourite of mine from one of my favourite crime writers, Ed McBain. The book is titled The Pusher. It is the third novel of his 87th Precinct, so when the series was still young. Which explains why... Well, you'll see if you read why and what happens. I don't want to give anything away. Let's just say to give you a foretaste that as Christmas is coming it is winter nightmareland for the men of the 87th and their friends and loved ones when an apparent suicide turns up to be murder. As the titles indicates, there are drug users and dealers. There's also blood on snow, as any good Christmas crime story should, generous amount of it in fact and maybe even a Christmas miracle or two.