Coming 10/13/2026
Home for the homicides
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 murder.
When Special Agents Holly Frost and Mark Shepherd report to the idyllic town of Christmas to investigate a very less than idyllic murder, they’re in for more than the average whodunnit.
“If you like your Hallmark Christmas movies with a side of murder, Home for the Homicides is the festive, quirky love child of a holiday whodunit and a steamy romance.”
— Sara Raasch, bestselling author
praise for home for the homicides
“A pitch-perfect blend of enemies-to-lovers tension, holiday chaos, and murder most merry, this is rom-com mystery at its finest. Smart, sexy, and wildly fun–we devoured it.”
— Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners
“From its crackling romantic tension to its self-aware chaos, this story of a murder in America’s tackiest tourist trap is fun enough to last me until next Christmas.”
— John Fram, AKA Jack Friday, author of The Bright Lands and Killer Vibes