num_pages: 400
description: Eighteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho Crime authors! This captivating collectionwhich features bestselling and award-winning authorscontains 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. Niccol Machiavelli sets out to save an Italian city. Sherlock Holmess 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 Wilboroughs 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.CONTENTAn Elderly Lady Seeks Peace at Christmastime by Helene TurstenThe Usual Santas by Mick HerronPX Christmas by Martin LimnChalee's Nativity by Timothy HallinanThe Cuban Marquise's Jewels by Teresa DovalpageA Mother's Curse by Mette Ivie HarrisonThere's Only One Father Christmas Right? by Colin CotterillMartin by Ed LinQueen of the Hill by Stuart NevilleBlue Memories Start Calling by Tod GoldbergBo Sau (Vengeance) by Henry ChangRed Christmas by James R. BennWhen the Time Comes by Lene Kaaberbol &amp; Agnete FriisHairpin Holiday by Sujata MasseyThe Prince (of Peace) by Gary CorbyCabaret aux Assassins by Cara BlackJane and the Midnight Clear by Stephanie BarronSupper with Miss Shivers by Peter Lovesey
language: English
title: The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers
publisher: Soho Crime