Author Description

Discover an utterly captivating Midwest murder mystery from a bestselling author — filled with quirky small-town suspects you won’t forget. Single mom Caley James has three kids, a good-for-nothing ex and the flu. When her furnace dies — during the longest cold spell Hampstead has ever seen — she thinks Christmas can’t get worse. Until... Her youngest finds a dead body in the basement. Shifty-eyed repairman Tim Holiday was supposed to be fixing their furnace. Instead he’s the one who got burned — so badly his face is almost unrecognizable. Police Chief Susan Wren is on the case. But she soon realizes Caley’s busybody neighbor knows more than they’re letting on. Are they hiding a secret — or hiding a killer? It’s up to Susan to solve the mystery before Christmas goes up in flames. Fans of Kate Carlisle, Ellery Adams, Sarah Yarwood-Lovett, Eileen Brady, Cathy Pickens and Dorothy Cannell will be hooked from the very first page! Readers can’t get enough of the Kansas Cozy Mysteries: ‘The kind of book you can hardly wait to get back to reading.’ M.C. Crammer ‘A great holiday mystery.’ Michelle ‘Brings the case to a slam-bang finish... both ingenious and believable.’ Kirkus ‘An impressive debut by a very talented writer.’ Marcia Muller, bestselling author ‘This series just keeps getting better... Charlene Weir just keeps piling on clues, and adding twists and turns.’ Patty ‘Wow, wow, wow — what a great storyteller!’ Lewis, advance reader ‘A great holiday mystery.’ Michelle ‘Good little murder mystery for Christmas. Fit the mood of the moment.’ Gloria ‘I love a good Christmas mystery... a very good cozy.’ Hildegart ‘Great characters and... gives a fine picture of the land and people of Kansas.’ Nikki ‘I would read the next book... as this was really good and I want to know what ha