Hardboiled Holidays
(2024)(A book in the Holiday Spectacular series)
A novel by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
In this criminally mysterious WMG Holiday Spectacular anthology, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers a carefully curated collection of holiday stories to add a bit of crime to the season. Join eleven of the best writers in the business as they present this slightly darker collection of holiday stories to captivate your inner detective any season of the year.
Shadowy Holiday Criminal Stories --The Lineup:
“Days of Mourning” by T. Thorn Coyle
“The Dead Ringer” by C. H. Hung
“Underdog Party” by Johanna Rothman
“Cold-Hearted Christmas” by Lisa Silverthorne
“Merry Bloody Christmas” by Jessi Hammond
“Dead Names” by Annie Reed
“The Final Instruction” by Kate Rohan
“The Last Multivariable Differential Christmas” by Michael Warren Lucas
“Luck At Christmas” by Mary Jo Rabe
“Season For Treason” by Kelly Washington
“The Snow Maiden and The Major of Military Police” by Henry Martin
Editor Bio
Award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch loves the holidays and she loves short-fiction, which makes the annual WMG Holiday Spectacular the perfect project for her to edit! Rusch won numerous awards for her editing and broke a number of barriers in the science fiction and fantasy field, including being the first female editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and being the only person in history to have won a Hugo Award for writing and editing.
She has owned two different publishing companies. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world, she has won more than thirty awards for her fiction and her short fiction has appeared in twenty-seven best-of-the-year collections. Find out more at kriswrites.com
Genre: Mystery
Shadowy Holiday Criminal Stories --The Lineup:
“Days of Mourning” by T. Thorn Coyle
“The Dead Ringer” by C. H. Hung
“Underdog Party” by Johanna Rothman
“Cold-Hearted Christmas” by Lisa Silverthorne
“Merry Bloody Christmas” by Jessi Hammond
“Dead Names” by Annie Reed
“The Final Instruction” by Kate Rohan
“The Last Multivariable Differential Christmas” by Michael Warren Lucas
“Luck At Christmas” by Mary Jo Rabe
“Season For Treason” by Kelly Washington
“The Snow Maiden and The Major of Military Police” by Henry Martin
Editor Bio
Award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch loves the holidays and she loves short-fiction, which makes the annual WMG Holiday Spectacular the perfect project for her to edit! Rusch won numerous awards for her editing and broke a number of barriers in the science fiction and fantasy field, including being the first female editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and being the only person in history to have won a Hugo Award for writing and editing.
She has owned two different publishing companies. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world, she has won more than thirty awards for her fiction and her short fiction has appeared in twenty-seven best-of-the-year collections. Find out more at kriswrites.com
Genre: Mystery