Claus for Suspicion is the second book in the Jingle Bell Christmas Mysteries. Kaylee Bleu (owner of the Flower Patch) and other business owners prepare for Dickens on Main, a holiday festival with ice carvers and a one-man show based on A Christmas Carol. Kaylee eagerly anticipates an evening carriage ride with Reese Holt, but she receives a horrible shock when she reaches under the carriage seat for a blanket and discovers a body dressed in a Santa suit. Her good friend is the prime suspect until blackmail notes point to Kaylee herself.

Kristi has had nine mysteries for adults published by a traditional publisher, Annie’s Publishing. (See below.) Three of the mysteries are historicals, with two set in England. Two are Christmas mysteries.

A Dangerous Tide (in which Jane Austen solves the mystery) was awarded a place in the Jane Austen House Museum’s reading room in Chawton, England!

Where Summer Never Comes is set in the village of the Brontës, Haworth, England, and Charlotte Brontë solves the mystery.

Deadly Angel is set in Washington, D.C. during the Civil War, when Louisa May Alcott solves a mystery in the army hospital where she is nursing.