The Crime Warp Advent Calendar: who needs chocolate when you can have a Crime Short Story each Day (13th - 25th Dec)

The Gift by  Katia Lief
(77p Kindle)
Slushy, nostalgic and representative of the true meaning of christmas: family and love.  
Karin Shaeffer takes herself off for a ride on her new Vespa, when a surprise theft makes her aware of an altogether darker, less benevolent  Christmas.

Thorne at Christmas  by Mark Billingham (99pKindle)
Underneath The Mistletoe Last Night

A Thorne Christmas story. A little boy discovers Santa lying under the Christmas Tree on Christmas morning… but the bust man’s not fallen asleep… …. he’s dead!

A Christmas Adventure by Agatha Christie (kindle 99p BBC audio £5.10)

When visiting friends for Christmas Hercule Poirot receives an anonymous and puzzling threatening note which has him thinking.  He then creates a wonderful double twist to reveal a thief whilst simultaneously aiding the course of true love

Written Out by Andrea Frazer
(77p kindle)

An Inspector Falconer cosy  crime, committed in a ‘cosy’ way for the festive season.  In Written Out carnapcious old age gets its’ revenge on a despicable, day time TV host.

Snow Slayer by DM Hartman (77p kindle)

Rookie detective Cindy Dutta spend her time scrutinising past homicides.  When she discovers a pattern emerging through the old files she approaches her boss who ridicules her idea of a serial killer targeting people who one ‘Vanity tags.

Maynard Soloman proves Santa Claus is Real
by Benjamin Sobiek
(kindle £1.81)
Aging ex police officer  and winnebago driving PI Maynard Solomon is down on his luck when a stop at a church to celebrate Santa's Birthday earns him some new friends.- funny and heart warming

The Last Days of Christmas by Chris Brookmyre

The Last Day Of Christmas

Security is compromised at the Ministry of Defence and journalist Jack Parlabane, down after the Leveson inquiry sets out to reveal  the situation. 

Malky's Bottle of Christmas by Gary Marshall
(77p kindle)
Malky spends his Saturday with his mate Raymie, a few beers and weekend TV.  His idea of luxury is the bottle of Glenmorangie he’s keeping for an unspecified “celebration”.  Watch out for the comic twist.

 Agatha Raisin and The Christmas Crumble by MC Beaton
(£2.05 kindle)
Agatha in her usual high handed manner decides to celebrate Christmas lunch with a motley assortment of friends and accquaintences .  But, as expected with Agatha, the unexpected happens and Christmas does indeed Crumble before her very eyes 

The Blues Detective saves Christmas by Andrew Peters
(Free kindle unlimited  or £2.05)
When prostitute Karinne finds that the  funds for a mega Christmas party she is due to  organise for ‘the girls’  have been  embezzled she approaches PI Otis.  Can the Blues Detective save Christmas for Karinne

Merry Christmas Mandel by Cara Roth
When Mrs Claus is murdered on a snowy Vienna Christmas Eve Inspector Mandel, desperate to escape the onslaught of his relatives, takes on the investigation.  So... did Santa kill Mrs Santa or not?

Santa's Christmas Eve Blues by Douglas Lindsay
(29p Kindle) Santa as a global elfless enterprise relying on spy intelligence and security contractors to 'police' Christmas reduces him to a guitar playing,blues singing, sciatica suffering old man.


Mean Christmas Night by Wayne D Dundee
(77p kindle)
Preconceptions challenged and would-be Christmas criminals thwarted by an unlikely hero in this feel good Christmas tale to round off our Christmas Advent

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