Home for the Homicides: A Holly & Mark Mystery (The Holly & Mark Mystery Series Book 1)

Nothing says "Happy Holidays" like a dead tourist, a town called Christmas, and a partner you'd rather arrest than work with.

Special Agent Holly Frost has survived countless dangerous assignments, but being paired with the insufferably charming Mark Shepherd might finally do her in. When the two rivals are dispatched to the picture-perfect town of Christmas — a year-round holiday haven straight out of a snow globe fantasy — to investigate a murder, Holly is convinced the only crime worth solving is whoever decided these two should share a case.

The victim? A tourist stabbed through the heart with an icicle ornament and left in the town nativity scene. The suspects? A suspiciously cheerful population who insists crime simply doesn't happen in Christmas. And the biggest complication? Holly and Mark, armed with their matching badges and maximum mutual irritation, have to pretend they can stand each other long enough to crack the case.

But somewhere between interrogating carolers, untangling small-town secrets, and surviving the relentless festive spirit of a community that treats every day like December 25th, the line between professional rivalry and something far more dangerous begins to blur. Mark is everything Holly tells herself she doesn't want — which makes him exactly the kind of trouble she can't stop thinking about.

Wickedly funny, deliciously twisty, and packed with enough slow-burn tension to melt every snowflake in town, *Home for the Homicides* is the holiday romantic mystery you didn't know you needed — but won't be able to put down.