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  A Dangerous Thing

  The Hell You Say

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  The Dark Tide

  Stranger Things Have Happened: A Write Your Own Damn Novel

  So This is Christmas

  The HOLMES & MORIARITY Mysteries

  Somebody Killed His Editor

  All She Wrote

  The Boy with the Painful Tattoo

  The ALL’S FAIR Trilogy

  Fair Game

  Fair Play

  The ART OF MURDER Trilogy

  The Mermaid Murders

  Other novels

  This Rough Magic (A SHOT IN THE DARK Series)

  The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks

  Mexican Heat (with Laura Baumbach)

  Strange Fortune

  Come Unto These Yellow Sands

  Stranger on the Shore

  Winter Kill

  Jefferson Blythe, Esquire

  Murder in Pastel

  The Curse of the Blue Scarab

  Novellas

  The DANGEROUS GROUND Series

  Dangerous Ground

  Old Poison

  Blood Heat

  Dead Run

  Kick Start

  The I SPY Series

  I Spy Something Bloody

  I Spy Something Wicked

  I Spy Something Christmas

  The IN A DARK WOOD Series

  In a Dark Wood

  The Parting Glass

  The DARK HORSE Series

  The Dark Horse

  The White Knight

  Snowball in Hell (DOYLE & SPAIN Series)

  Haunted Heart: Winter (HAUNTED HEART Series)

  Mummy Dearest (XOXO FILES Series)

  Other novellas

  Cards on the Table

  The Dark Farewell

  The Darkling Thrush

  The Dickens with Love

  Don’t Look Back

  A Ghost of a Chance

  Lovers and Other Strangers

  Out of the Blue

  A Vintage Affair

  Lone Star (in Men Under the Mistletoe)

  Green Glass Beads (in Irregulars)

  Blood Red Butterfly

  Everything I Know

  Baby, It’s Cold (in Comfort and Joy)

  A Case of Christmas

  Murder Between the Pages

  Short stories

  A Limited Engagement

  The French Have a Word for It

  In Sunshine or In Shadow

  Until We Meet Once More

  Icecapade (in His for the Holidays)

  Perfect Day

  Heart Trouble

  In Plain Sight

  Wedding Favors

  Wizard’s Moon

  Fade to Black

  Night Watch

  PETIT MORTS (SWEET SPOT Collection)

  Other People’s Weddings

  Slings and Arrows

  Sort of Stranger Than Fiction

  Critic’s Choice

  Just Desserts

  Merry Christmas, Darling (Holiday Codas)

  CHRISTMAS WALTZ (Holiday Codas II)

  January 2017

  Copyright (c) 2017 by Josh Lanyon

  Cover by K.B. Smith

  Artwork by Johanna Ollila

  Edited by Keren Reed

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  This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.