Baby, It’s Cold Outside

An anthology of new dark crime fiction in festive holiday wrappings from authors across North America and beyond. Dark Tales of Christmas Crime, Holiday Horror, and Yuletide Woe. 

FEATURING NEW AND EXCITING TALES FROM:

E.C. Bell (Aurora Award winning author of the Marie Jenner Mystery series)

Alex Benarzi (Freeze Frame Fiction)

Rob Brunet (Stinking Rich; Thuglit; Shotgun Honey)

Chris Patrick Carolan (49^thParallels; Enigma Front: Burnt)

M. Jane Colette (Tell Me, Consequences;Cherry Pie Cure)

S.A. Cosby (My Darkest Prayer; Fast Women and Neon Lights; Sound and Fury)

Meredith Frazier (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine; Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)

Therese Greenwood (two-time Arthur Ellis Award nominated author of Kill As You Go)

Jim Jackson (Stones in My Passway; Kiss of the Cockroach Queen)

Claude Lalumière (Objects of Worship; The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir)

Liam Sweeny (Street Whispers; theJack LeCleredetective series)

Kevin P. Thornton (Seven-time Arthur Ellis Award nominee; AB Negative; Gaslight Gothic)

Darusha Wehm (Beautiful Red; Children of Arkadia)

Sam Wiebe (Cut You Down; Invisible Dead)

Edited by Robert Bose and Sarah L. Johnson

FOREWORD

IN THE DEAD OF WINTER, 1999 .................................................... SAM WIEBE

SWEET BABY JESUS ....................................................................... S.A. COSBY

THAT OLD A-WASSAILING SCAM ...................................................... E.C. BELL

VIOLETS .............................................................................. M. JANE COLETTE

CIRCLE OF STEEL ...................................................... CHRIS PATRICK CAROLAN

THE POWER MAN ....................................................... THERESE GREENWOOD

NERIUM ................................................................................... ALEX BENARZI

CHRISTMAS CONFESSION ......................................................... LIAM SWEENY

KING WONG & THE MISTRESS OF CHRISTMAS ........................... JIM JACKSON

BROTHER’S KEEPER .......................................................... MEREDITH FRAZIER

BLOWN ...................................................................................... ROB BRUNET

THE FIXER, THE COP, HIS EX,  AND HER KILLER................ CLAUDE LALUMIÈRE

MISTLETOE AND HOLLY ....................................................... DARUSHA WEHM

THE SHIH TZU’S PRESENT ............................................... KEVIN P. THORNTON

IN THE DEAD OF WINTER, 2017 .................................................... SAM WIEBE

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