Ergebnis für "When Santa Is Bad" in Krimis & Thriller

Ich war schon kein Fan von Weihnachten, bevor mich Santa Claus von einem abgelegenen Rastplatz entführt hat. Er will meine Hilfe, sagt er - das Elfenkostüm für mich hat er schon. Allerdings braucht er mich nicht, um Geschenke an Kinder zu verteilen. Santa plant ein gutes Dutzend Morde, bei denen ich ihm zur Hand gehen soll.

Da ich vollkommen pleite bin, kann ich mir kaum die Zutaten für meine berühmte Weihnachtstorte leisten, aber ich kratze auch den letzten Rest Geld zusammen, um es trotzdem hinzubekommen. Der Mann, der mich angeheuert hat, um für ihn zu backen, ist ein bekannter Milliardär mit unzähligen reichen Freunden. Einige von ihnen werden mich bestimmt buchen, damit ich auch für ihre Partys backe, sobald sie meine Torte auf dem exklusiven Weihnachtsball probiert haben.

Sixteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho crime authors! This captivating collection of short mysteries and crime capers - which features New York Times best-selling authors, Crime Writers Association Gold and Diamond Dagger winners, and Edgar Award nominees - contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.

It's Christmas in Sinful and Fortune is set to participate in all the local hoopla. A Christmas gala, caroling, and a sleigh ride are on the agenda. Murder is not. But when someone bumps off Santa, Fortune is aware a killer is lurking among the holiday cheer. But with no client and no reason to interfere with a police investigation, it looks as if Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie will have to sit this one out.

Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered - by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus - with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day, the festivities are plunged into chaos. Nearly everybody stands to reap some sort of benefit from his death excepting Santa Klaus, the one person who seems to have had every opportunity to fire the shot.

Bill Vokes has played Santa at the children's Christmas show for years. But with the show just hours away, he vanishes with no explanation. The whole village is baffled. Did something bad happen to loveable Bill, upstanding citizen, churchgoer, life and soul of the party and the holiday season? Jack and Sarah are on the case - and soon discover there are secrets about this Santa that no one could have imagined.

Colorful Christmas lights dapple the family homes in the idyllic lakeside town of Sweet Haven when Jennifer Dean, a young librarian at the local elementary school, is brutally murdered. There are witnesses and her boyfriend Travis Blake confesses to the crime...but something doesn't quite add up. Blake is a third generation Army Ranger, awarded the Silver Star for his heroism in Afghanistan - how could a beloved son of this tight-knit burgh commit such a grisly deed?