Finally: the perfect stocking stuffer for the crime fiction lover in your life! With a foreword by CWA Diamond Award-winner Peter Lovesey, these eighteen delightful holiday stories by your favorite Soho Crime authors contain laughs, murders, and plenty more.
This captivating collection, which features bestselling and award-winning authors, contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.
Nine mall Santas must find the imposter among them. An elderly lady seeks peace from her murderously loud neighbors at Christmastime. A young woman receives a mysterious invitation to Christmas dinner with a stranger. NiccolΓ² Machiavelli sets out to save an Italian city. Sherlock Holmesβs one-time nemesis Irene Adler finds herself in an unexpected tangle in Paris while on a routine espionage assignment. Jane Austen searches for the Dowager Duchess of Wilboroughβs stolen diamonds. These and other adventures in this delectable volume will whisk readers away to Christmases around the globe, from a Korean War POW camp to a Copenhagen refugee squat, from a palatial hotel in 1920s Bombay to a crumbling mansion in Havana.
CONTENT
"An Elderly Lady Seeks Peace at Christmastime" by Helene Tursten
"The Usual Santas" by Mick Herron
"PX Christmas" by Martin LimΓ³n"
"Chalee's Nativity" by Timothy Hallinan
"The Cuban Marquise's Jewels" by Teresa Dovalpage
"A Mother's Curse" by Mette Ivie Harrison
"There's Only One Father Christmas, Right?" by Colin Cotterill
"Martin" by Ed Lin
"Queen of the Hill" by Stuart Neville
"Blue Memories Start Calling" by Tod Goldberg
"Bo Sau (Vengeance)" by Henry Chang
"Red Christmas" by James R. Benn
"When the Time Comes" by Lene Kaaberbol & Agnete Friis
"Hairpin Holiday" by Sujata Massey
"The Prince (of Peace)" by Gary Corby
"Cabaret aux Assassins" by Cara Black
"Jane and the Midnight Clear" by Stephanie Barron
"Supper with Miss Shivers" by Peter Lovesey