Killer Christmas

By Leigh Russell

It's Christmas Eve but not all is merry and bright for Detective Geraldine Steel. With her family abroad and her friends booked up, she finds herself alone in York for the holidays. But when a man collapses at the local fair, it's clear that this isn't a case of winter flu. There's a killer in the crowds. Can Geraldine find the culprit before another life is taken?

• Language: English
• Publisher: No Exit Press
• Release date: Dec 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9780857302656

Leigh Russell

Leigh Russell is the award-winning author of the Geraldine Steel and Ian Peterson mysteries. She is an English teacher who lives in the UK with her family.

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Cold Sacrifice

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KILLER CHRISTMAS

‘What are you doing for Christmas?’ Ariadne asked.

‘I’ll be going to my sister’s,’ Geraldine replied to her colleague’s question. ‘How about you?’

‘My family’s huge and we all descend on my parents every Christmas. It’s fun, but pretty exhausting. I think my mother finds it all too much but she absolutely refuses to let any of us help her.’

‘How many brothers and sisters have you got?’

‘Four.’

‘There are five of you!’

‘You’re a mathematician? I had no idea,’ Ariadne laughed.

It occurred to Geraldine that her own sister, Celia, hadn’t invited her yet, but Geraldine stayed there for a few nights over Christmas every year and Celia hadn’t said anything to suggest this year might be different.

‘Geraldine, I’ve been meaning to call you!’ Celia gushed when Geraldine phoned her that evening. ‘How have you been?’

‘I’m fine. How are you all?’

‘Oh, we’re well. You’re busy as usual, I suppose, with your dead bodies.’

Geraldine wasn’t involved in a murder investigation right then so had booked time off, and was free