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The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers

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Eighteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho Crime authors! 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. Niccolò Machiavelli sets out to save an Italian city. Sherlock Holmes’s 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 Wilborough’s stolen diamonds. And other adventures that will whisk readers away to Christmases around the globe, from a Korean War POW camp to a Copenhagen refugee squat to the streets of Thailand.CONTENT"An Elderly Lady Seeks Peace at Christmastime" by Helene Tursten"The Usual Santas" by Mick Herron"PX Christmas" by Martin Limón""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

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Length 400 Pages
Language Eng
Imprint Soho Crime
Released November 1, 2016
Identifier (ISBN) 59108499
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After spending years working in the corporate world, Peter Lovesey finally decided to pursue a lifelong passion for writing. They currently reside in a quiet suburb where they spend most of their time outlining new stories, reading extensively, and occasionally attempting to bake.

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