It seems every writer has to write a Christmas novella, a short book that’s hot for the season and on the remaindered table by January 2.

Some of them actually are good. You have your favorites.

One of mine is thriller writer David Morrell’s The Spy Who Came for Christmas.

I didn’t know it until I found it at the AAUW’s book sale, but thriller writer David Baldacci also has written a Christmas novella, his The Christmas Train.

One buck and into my bag it went.

I’m going to wait until we get a good snowstorm in December, then, with a cup of hot chocolate in hand, I’ll clamber aboard Baldacci’s Christmas Train for my holiday read.