Baby, It's Cold Outside

by Sam Wiebe, Claude Lalumière, Therese Greenwood

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781988987170
Publisher:	Coffin Hop Press
Publication date:	11/25/2018
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Sam Wiebe is the author of the Vancouver crime novels Cut You Down, Invisible Dead, and Last of the Independents.

Claude Lalumière (claudepages.info) is the author of five books - including Objects of Worship and Venera Dreams: A Weird Entertainment - and more than 100 stories, several of which have been adapted for stage, screen, audio, and comics. He has edited fourteen anthologies in various genres, including The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir (2015). His work has been translated into seven languages. Originally from Montreal, he's now headquartered in Ottawa.

Kill As You Go, a collection of Therese Greenwood's short stories, was published by Coffin Hop Press in 2018. Her crime fiction has appeared across Canada and in the U.S. in such publications as the Crime Writers of Canada's Over The Edge anthology and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. She has twice been short-listed for the Arthur Ellis Award, Canada's top mystery writing prize, and has co-edited two crime fiction anthologies. Her memoir of the Fort McMurray wildfire, What You Take With You: Wildfire, Family and the Road Home, will be published in spring of 2019 by the University of Alberta Press

Table of Contents

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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