Crooked Little Christmas — Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Crime threads its way through everything, including the holidays. But for writers, that just adds some spice to their creativity.Take this WMG Holiday Spectacular anthology, in which award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers holiday tales from dark to light and everything in between.Let Thea Hutcheson thrill you as Paolo Bianchi tries to save the man he loves in time for their annual solstice celebration. Travel to Colombia as one family puts their own little twist on the celebration called Día de las Velitas. Buckle in with Irette Y. Patterson for one of those unexpected spy stories about a seemingly unassuming person. And join Karen Abrahamson in Thailand on a hot December day as she introduces you to a handful of people up to no good.Along with stories by Leslie Claire Walker, Kari Kilgore, Steven Mohan, Jr. and more, these eleven thrilling writers capture the mischief and mayhem to the holiday season.Includes:Black Deeds on a Black Friday by Laura WareThe Good Girl by Lauren LangThe Copper Valley Cocoa Conniption Competition by Kari KilgoreThree Spectacular Capers and the Whatever It's Called Beneath the Tree by Steven Mohan, Jr.Larceny's Love Lost and Found by Leslie Claire WalkerShinier Things by Filip WiltgrenThe Laws of St. Laurent by Kelsey HuttonThe Whole Darn Package by Karen AbrahamsonThe File Clerk Who Hid in the Cave by Irette Y. PattersonDía de Las Velitas by Liz LazoA Close Shave by Thea Hutcheson