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Eighteen delightful holiday stories by a colorful lineup of your favorite Soho Crime authors!
With Stories By: 

Helene Tursten | Mick Herron | Martin Limón | Timothy Hallinan | Teresa Dovalpage | Mette Ivie Harrison | Colin Cotterill | Ed Lin | Stuart Neville | Tod Goldberg | Henry Chang | James R. Benn | Lene Kaaberbøl & Agnete Friis | Sujata Massey | Gary Corby | Cara Black | Stephanie Barron

And a story and Introduction from:
Peter Lovesey

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER THROUGH:
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“The Usual Santas: a very good example of that kind of thing."
—James R. Benn, author of the Billy Boyle mysteries 

“I wished the book would never end, so I didn't finish it."
—Timothy Hallinan, author of the Junior Bender mysteries and the Poke Rafferty thrillers

“Nothing says Christmas like a story from a guy named Goldberg."
—Tod Goldberg, New York Times bestselling co-author of The House of Secrets
Cover and endpaper illustrations by Jeff Wong

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.
ABOUT SOHO CRIME
For more than a quarter century, Soho Crime has been publishing atmospheric crime fiction set all over the world. Some of Soho’s most popular stories will whisk you away to France, China, England, Laos, Northern Ireland, Thailand, Australia, Japan, Germany, South Africa, Italy, Denmark, India, Cuba, and Palestine, to name but a few. Soho Crime’s list run the entire range of crime fiction—detective fiction, police procedurals, thrillers, espionage novels, revenge novels, stories of thieves, assassins, and underworld mob bosses—but you can count on an immersive adventure steeped in cultural and setting detail. Visit this page for a complete list of titles in the Soho Crime library.