Christmas Cracker: Six Festive Stories from Accent Press — Multiple Authors

The Ghost Before Christmas by Katherine John Inspector Dan Evans retired from the police force, returning to Wales to help manage the family holiday rental business. But there is one cottage no holidaymaker can sleep in for a single night: the farmhouse where Dan's nephew, Alun, murdered his wife. Alun is serving a life sentence, but the body was never found. Do the dead who have never been laid to rest really walk at night? Another Cup of Christmas by Jenny Kane Pickwicks Caf? is preparing to host a special Christmas fundraiser for the hospital that looked after Scott, the cook and owner, after his terrible car accident. Waitress Megan is liaising with ward administrator Nick, as all the staff who helped with Scott's recovery are invited. As the fundraiser takes up more and more of their lives, Megan and Nick contact each other more frequently, and their emails and calls start to develop into something more flirty. But can you really fall for someone you've never met? The Mistletoe Mystery by Caroline Dunford Edwardian heroine (and aristocrat's granddaughter) Euphemia Martins has encountered some odd and dastardly deeds in her time, but her strange experiences at White Orchards, the grand country house of the Hon. Bertram Stapleford, (her sometime suitor and employer), are something else entirely. How exactly does a down-to-earth vicar's daughter become embroiled in real-life tales of the supernatural? When a Child is Born by Jodi Taylor It's Christmas Day 1066 and a team from St Mary's is going to witness the coronation of William the Conqueror. Or so they think. However, History seems to have different plans for them, and when Max finds herself delivering a child in a peasant's hut, she ca