Last
year, I had a bunch of fun rewriting the lyrics to The Night before Christmas.
So much fun, in fact, that I decided this should be a tradition. And since you're reading this, chances are good the world has yet to end (hooray!) so here goes...
This year, crime fiction takes to Winter Wonderland, which was first published in 1934, composed by Felix Bernard with lyrics by Richard B. Smith. I hope they would forgive me for borrowing their song.
The characters and books you’ll see referenced below are some of my favorites I’ve read this year. Some are making repeat appearances from last year and others are new…regardless, I am immensely grateful to the authors for their stories. The links below lead to their websites; I hope you’ll check them out, especially if you don’t recognize the references.
Whatever you celebrate this season, may it be joyous, peaceful, merry, and bright.
Sirens blare, are you listening
In
the alley, blood is glistening
A troublesome sight
We're frightened tonight
Walking in a crime filled wonderland
Gone away is
the hunter guiding
Here to stay are spirits hiding
Sam hunts
for a soul
Down in a hole
Walking in a crime filled wonderland.
In
Vesterbro we can build a snowman
And pretend that she’s Amanda
Wagner
She'll say: Have you solved it?
We'll say: No ma’am,
But we hope Tom Thorne
Will help when he's in town
Later on, we'll conspire,
As Clete
sits in the cross fire
Joe knows we’re
afraid
Despite plans that we've made,
Walking in a crime filled wonderland
On
Heart Island we can build a snowman
And pretend that he's football coach
We'll have lots of fun with mister coach, man
Until the other criminals knock him down
When we read, ain't it thrilling
As we learn about a killing
We’ll follow the case, the detective way
Walking in a crime filled wonderland.
