A Cold Christmas

Discover an utterly captivating Midwest murder mystery from a bestselling author — filled with quirky small-town suspects you won’t forget.Single mom Caley James has three kids, a good-for-nothing ex and the flu. When her furnace dies — during the longest cold spell Hampstead has ever seen — she thinks Christmas can’t get worse. Until . . .Her youngest finds a dead body in the basement.Shifty-eyed repairman Tim Holiday was supposed to be fixing their furnace. Instead he’s the one who got burned — so badly his face is almost unrecognizable.Police Chief Susan Wren is on the case. But she soon realizes Caley’s busybody neighbor knows more than they’re letting on.Are they hiding a secret — or hiding a killer?It’s up to Susan to solve the mystery before Christmas goes up in flames.Fans of Kate Carlisle, Ellery Adams, Sarah Yarwood-Lovett, Eileen Brady, Cathy Pickens and Dorothy Cannell will be hooked from the very first page!Readers can’t get enough of the Kansas Cozy Mysteries:????? ‘The kind of book you can hardly wait to get back to reading.’ M.C. Crammer???? ‘A great holiday mystery.’ Michelle‘Brings the case to a slam-bang finish . . . both ingenious and believable.’ Kirkus‘An impressive debut by a very talented writer.’ Marcia Muller, bestselling author???? ‘This series just keeps getting better . . . Charlene Weir just keeps piling on clues, and adding twists and turns.’ Patty‘Wow, wow, wow — what a great storyteller!’ Lewis, advance reader???? ‘A great holiday mystery.’ Michelle‘Good little murder mystery for Christmas. Fit the mood of the moment.’ Gloria???? ‘I love a good Christmas mystery . . . a very good cozy.’ Hildegart???? ‘Great characters and . . . gives a fine picture of the land and people of Kansas.’ Nikki????? ‘I would read the next book . . . as this was really good and I want to know what happens next.’ Susan???? ‘The ending was a great surprise and suspenseful.’ Gloria????? ‘The Winter Widow flows and is constructed in such a way that I didn’t want to put it down. I was lured from chapter to chapter.’ LawrenceMEET THE DETECTIVEA career cop from San Francisco, Susan Donovan never expected to fall in love. Especially not with a small-town police chief like Dan Wren. But when they meet at a conference, Susan knows he’s the one. After a whirlwind romance, they marry and move to Hampstead, Kansas, Dan’s tiny hometown. She thought she’d got her happy ever after. But that all changed one winter’s day, six weeks later — when Dan was gunned down by a sniper. What will her future in the Midwest hold without him?ALSO BY CHARLENE WEIRTHE KANSAS COZY MYSTERIESBook 1: THE WINTER WIDOWBook 2: A LESSON IN MURDERBook 3: A PRESCRIPTION FOR MURDERBook 4: MURDER: TAKE TWOBook 5: A COLD CHRISTMAS