The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers: A Soho Crime Holiday Anthology - Hardcover

Soho Crime

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1616957751 ISBN 13: 9781616957759

Publisher: Soho Press Inc, 2017

Synopsis

Sixteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho Crime authors!

Featuring short crime fiction by: Helene Tursten, Mick Herron, Martin Limon, Timothy Hallinan, Mette Ivie Harrison, Colin Cotterill, Ed Lin, Stuart Neville, Tod Goldberg, Henry Chang, James R. Benn, Lene Kaaberbol & Agnete Friis, Gary Corby, Cara Black, Stephanie Barron, and Peter Lovesey
This captivating collection of short mysteries and crime capers--which features New York Times bestselling authors, Crime Writers Association Gold and Diamond Dagger winners, and Edgar Award nominees--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. Niccolo 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 will whisk readers away to Christmases around the globe, from a Korean War POW camp to a Copenhagen refugee squat to a Thai street child's quest for the perfect gift for her friend.

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Praise for Soho Press
"Soho Press consistently publishes top-notch novels that open windows on foreign underworlds off-limits to the casual traveler."
--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

Praise for Soho Press
-Soho Press consistently publishes top-notch novels that open windows on foreign underworlds off-limits to the casual traveler.-
--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

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For more than twenty years, Soho Crime has been publishing atmospheric crime fiction set all over the world. Some of our most popular series will whisk you away to France, China, England, Laos, Northern Ireland, Australia, Japan, Germany, South Africa, Italy, Denmark, and Palestine, to name but a few, and we hope that this list will only grow with time. Our books 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 www.sohocrime.com for a complete list of titles in the Soho Crime library.

About this edition

• Publisher: Soho Press Inc
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1616957751
• ISBN 13: 9781616957759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Soho Crime