Mia P. Manansala (she/her) is a writer and certified book coach from Chicago who loves books, baking, and bad-ass women. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture, and is the author of the multi-award-winning Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series.
The newest title in the series is Blackmail and Bibingka.
At CrimeReads Manansala tagged five favorite Christmas-themed mysteries, including:
Death in D Minor by Alexia GordonRead about the other entries on the list.
I love the Gethsemane Brown series, which follows a Black classical musician who moves to a small Irish village to starta quiet new life, only to befriend the ghost haunting her cottage and become an amateur sleuth in the process. While I love romance (if I hadn’t made that abundantly clear in my opening), I know it’s not for everyone, so this is a great series for those not interested in romantic relationships, but still invested in deep familial and platonic ties. The second book in the series has Gethsemane accidentally conjuring up the wrong ghost in order to save her brother-in-law, who stopped in for a visit and is now the main suspect for art theft and murder. A typical Christmas vacation, am I right?
--Marshal Zeringue
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