A Holiday Mystery Anthology by Paty Jager

I'm excited to be one of the ten authors in the Crime Never Takes a Holiday, mystery anthology by Windtree Press Authors.

At the beginning of this year, we discussed doing a mystery anthology. We have 8 mystery/thriller/romantic suspense authors in the author co-op. What was fun about this anthology, you didn't have to be a mystery/thriller/suspense writer to have a story in the anthology. You just had to have a story set around a holiday-any holiday-, a dead body, and a mystery. 

I had offered to be the editor for the anthology. When the stories started coming in, I was pleased with the variety of characters and plots. 

My story, A Body on the 13th Floor, is set in my fictional Spotted Pony Casino and my main character from that mystery series is involved in the story as well as her usual supporting cast. If you weren't aware, many casino hotels don't have a number 13th floor. Gamblers believe the number is bad luck, therefore the elevators go from the 12th floor to the 14th, even though if you counted the stories, 14 is actually the 13th floor. 

Here is the blurb for my short story in the anthology:

Dela Alvaro, head of security for the Spotted Pony Casino, has a dead body in an elevator on New Year’s Eve. The unfortunate soul was stuck between the 12^th and 14^th floors when he met his demise. 

Blurb for the anthology:

A cornucopia of ten cozy mystery stories that are perpetrated during holidays from New Years to Christmas. This collection explores unexplained disturbances, college pranks gone wrong, and almost always one or more murders around a holiday. Solve these spooky crimes that lurk beneath celebratory parties and help search for the murderers. Kick off your shoes, grab a warm drink and snuggle into a blanket before you get lured onto the sparkling snow for the next crime spree.

A Body on the 13th Floor by Paty Jager
Dead Ladies Don't Dance by Robin Weaver
Took Nothing Left Nothing by Pamela Cowan
Busted for Bones by Dari LaRoche
Yuletide Firebug by Kathy Coatney
Starry Night Murder by Mary Vine
The Twelfth Night Murder by Ann Chaney
Blue Christmas by Melissa Yi
Two Turtle Doves by Maggie Lynch
Five Golden Rings by Kimila Kay

Buy Link: https://books2read.com/u/b6zYgp

Paty Jager is an award-winning author of 50+ novels, 8 novellas, and numerous anthologies of murder mystery and western romance. All her work has Western or Native American elements in them along with hints of humor and engaging characters. Paty and her husband raise alfalfa hay in rural eastern Oregon. Riding horses and battling rattlesnakes, she not only writes the western lifestyle, she lives it.

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