Lovers of epistolary tales, take note: this fun little holiday caper is told entirely in law firm correspondence, text threads, community message boards, and Christmas letters. In this snarky, snappy holiday story, the members of Lower Lockwood's Fairway Players are staging a one-night-only performance of Jack and the Beanstalk to raise money for the local church. But between the power-hungry leading couple, competitiveness over roles, and small town drama, the performance is already on shaky ground—and that's before signs of an unsolved murder pop up on set. This novella is also beautiful in print if you're seeking a gift for Anglophiles or Agatha Christie fans.

After a stint in prison, Steven Smith can’t stop thinking about the day his English teacher Miss Isles disappeared during a class field trip to author Edith Twyford’s home. She’s never been found and he’s missing memories of what happened while they were away. Shortly before his teacher’s disappearance, he gave her a copy of Twyford’s book that he’d found. Miss Isles believed the manuscript, filled with annotations and markings, was a secret code. Now Steven wonders whether she was right. With the help of old classmates and voice memos on his old iPhone, he sets out to learn the truth of the Twyford Code.