About this Event
Local Author Elle Cosimano joins forces with Hannah Morrissey for a new M**der mystery romance with a festive twist in ! Hear these two amazing authors in conversation with Rachel Dawson (@alltheRADreads) on Thursday, October 15th at 7PM at Old Town Books!
'Tis the season . . . for M**der.
"The festive, quirky love child of a holiday whodunit and a steamy romance.” —Sara Raasch
When Special Agents Holly Frost and Mark Shepherd report to the idyllic town of Christmas to investigate a very less than idyllic M**der, they’re in for more than the average whodunnit.
Welcome to Christmas, a town so cozy and charming it could be the backdrop of a Hallmark movie, where crime is never in season and it’s the holidays all year round. So when a tourist is found stabbed to death by an icicle ornament in the middle of the town nativity scene, the local police are out of their depth—after all, how do you find a criminal in a town where crime doesn't exist?
The stakes are high: the whole town is relying on Holly and Mark to solve the crime before the annual Jingle Bell Jubilee festival (which naturally the town's entire economic survival relies on), plus, whichever of them cracks the case will receive a promotion to Major Crimes—and there's only one spot.
Holly and Mark are both on thin ice after screwing up on the job. This assignment is their one shot at redemption, if they can put aside their bitter rivalry. And of course, it's not only their careers on the line, it's their hearts, too—regrets of their holiday party hookup last year haunt them like ghosts of Christmas past, so they both want to wrap up this rom-com gone wrong as quickly as possible. But with just twelve days until the festival, the countdown to catch a killer—without killing each other—is on.
Co-authored by New York Times bestseller Elle Cosimano (Finlay Donovan series) and USA Today bestseller Hannah Morrissey (Black Harbor series), Home for the Homicides is a sexy, light-hearted romp, with a dash of merriment and M**der.
About the Authors:
ELLE COSIMANO is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, an International Thriller Award winner, and an Edgar Award nominee. Elle’s debut novel for adults, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, kicked off a witty, fast-paced contemporary mystery series, which was a People magazine pick and was named one of New York Public Library's Best Books of 2021. The third book in the series, Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun, was an instant New York Times bestseller. Cosimano lives with her husband and two sons in Virginia.
HANNAH MORRISSEY is the USA Today bestselling author of the Black Harbor suspense series and other gripping works of crime fiction (coming soon!). Praised for their hauntingly atmospheric settings and gritty Midwestern realism, her novels have helped define a distinct subgenre: Midwestern Noir. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she studied English and Creative Writing, Hannah lives near Milwaukee with her husband and a grumble of pugs.
About the Conversation Partner:
Rachel A. Dawson is a Richmond-based reader, writer, and content
creator who believes recommending the perfect next read is a love
language. She shares her reading life on @alltheradreads on Instagram
and TikTok and writes "the rad recap" on Substack, where books meet
creativity, curiosity, and thoughtful conversations about being human.
When she’s not reading 150+ books a year, Rachel works in social media
at the University of Richmond, hops between hobbies, and browses both
indie bookstores and libraries... often.
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