Marcus Sedgwick loves snow. He moved to be where there is a lot of it, and has written a reflective little book titled Snow. There are six chapters because a snowflake has six sides. He discusses the various origins of the word (from many languages), as well as of art and science of snow. There's a section about climate change too, suggesting that there could be a time when there is no more snow. An interesting read.

Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards, is a collection of old British Mysteries. The writers, many popular in their day, were not familiar to me (with the exception of Margery Allingham) but the stories were great! There are ghosts, and bodies that vanish (with no footprints in the snow), locked rooms, and one with an ending I was not expecting at all. Not a cozy! ;-)

Reading Hermit With Dog