Killer Christmas!

An exclusive Amazon download at a bargain price...three previously published stories that take place at Christmas time:

"Henry Hartman's Holiday Crisis": Henry Hartman is an FBI agent trying to protect the woman he loves, even if she doesn't really trust him to tell the truth. Syd Stansfield has no idea her ex-husband, Matt Boyle, has been working for mobsters, but that doesn't stop the Boyle family from trying to kill her. After Henry is badly beaten by one of crime boss Blackie Walsh's ruthless thugs, the FBI case turns really ugly. Desperate, Henry drags Syd to Bethlehem, New Hampshire for Christmas, roping his grandmother and the other Hartman ladies into helping him save the woman he loves. Is a wedding the solution to the gangster game or is this just another of Henry's FBI stings?

"Where's Hansel and Gretel's Gingerbread House?": Deputy Gabby Grimm is one of Vermont's finest in Latimer Falls, a small village with more horses, cows, and chickens than people. When Cousin Annette gets tangled up with a complicated FBI investigation into a Big Apple real estate fraud, the desperate woman begs Gabby to come to New York to rescue her. The man Annette has been having a steamy love affair with isn't what he seems, and after he disappears, leaving the abandoned, lovesick woman stranded, Gabby has to finagle her cousin out of a huge mess. The solution to the puzzle is in a gingerbread house that Annette constructed for the residential development that's being built,but someone stole it. Can they get it back in time to prevent Annette from going to go to slammer for Christmas?

"Miz Scarlet and the Holiday Houseguests": Poor homicide investigator Laurencia "Larry" Rivera has her hands full. A teenager turns up dead in Windsor, Connecticut just days before Christmas. Was the murder part of a plan to prevent a star witness from flipping on some very powerful people? When Larry's divorced parents, the Queen of Clean and the Spitball King, announce they coming for the holiday,she's overwhelmed and she turns to innkeeper and good friend Scarlet Wilson for help. The solution? Send the bickering ex-spouses to the Four Acorns Inn for some pampering. As Larry tries to catch a killer, things quickly spin out of control. Her daughter, Michaela, is threatened. Is it because of the case Larry's investigating or is there something more sinister going on? Long hidden secrets threaten the Rivera family, and when Larry suddenly disappears, it's up to Miz Scarlet and the gang to save her.