Mystery author Joanna Carl (real name: Eve Sandstrom) cooks up a new tale in The Chocolate Snowman Murders. The story follows Lee and her husband Joe, who somehow have been saddled with serving on the Warner Pier Winter Arts Festival organizing committee. Besides a pushy choir director, a welding torch–wielding artist and a renegade snowman, Lee has a dead art show judge on her hands. Can things get any worse for her? Sure they can ย— Lee is the prime suspect in the murder. 4:30 p.m. Murder by the Book, 2342 Bissonnet. For information, call 713-524-8597 or visit www.murderbooks.com. Free.

Sat., Nov. 22, 4:30 p.m., 2008