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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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One disastrous night. One devastating man. One diabolical proposition.


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He’s stubborn. She’s tougher. His kid? Already picked the bride.


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A small-town second chance wrapped in danger, desire, and Sharon Sala heart.


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She came home to save the ranch… and found the cowboy she never forgot.


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From reality TV heartbreak to real-life reinvention.


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A missing twin. A deadly cartel. One K-9 team caught in the crossfire.


The Usual Santas by Peter Lovesey

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Also by Peter Lovesey:

Against the Grain, December 2024
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Showstopper, November 2023
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Diamond and the Eye, October 2021
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Wobble to Death, October 2020
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The Finisher, August 2020
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Killing with Confetti, July 2019
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Bertie, March 2019
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Beau Death, October 2018
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Beau Death, December 2017
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The Usual Santas, November 2017
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Another One Goes Tonight, July 2016
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Down Among the Dead Men, July 2015
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The Stone Wife, September 2014
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The Tooth Tattoo, May 2013
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Cop To Corpse, June 2012
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THE USUAL SANTAS
By: Peter Lovesey

A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers

Soho Crime
November 2017
On Sale: October 24, 2017
416 pages
ISBN: 1616957751
EAN: 9781616957759
Kindle: B01AQNYP5Q
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Mystery Anthology | Holiday

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 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. 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.

Includes Stories By (In Order of Appearance): Helene Tursten, Mick Herron, Martin LimΓ³n, Timothy Hallinan, Teresa Dovalpage, Mette Ivie Harrison, Colin Cotterill, Ed Lin, Stuart Neville, Tod Goldberg, Henry Chang, James R. Benn, Lene KaaberbΓΈl & Agnete Friis, Sujata Massey, Gary Corby, Cara Black, Stephanie Barron and a Foreword and story by Peter Lovesey.

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