Crime threads its way through everything, including the holidays. But for writers, that just adds some spice to their creativity.

Take this WMG Holiday Spectacular anthology, in which award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers holiday tales from dark to light and everything in between.

Let Thea Hutcheson thrill you as Paolo Bianchi tries to save the man he loves in time for their annual solstice celebration. Travel to Colombia as one family puts their own little twist on the celebration called Día de las Velitas. Buckle in with Irette Y. Patterson for one of those unexpected spy stories about a seemingly unassuming person. And join Karen Abrahamson in Thailand on a hot December day as she introduces you to a handful of people up to no good.

Along with stories by Leslie Claire Walker, Kari Kilgore, Steven Mohan, Jr. and more, these eleven thrilling writers capture the mischief and mayhem to the holiday season.

Includes:

"Black Deeds on a Black Friday" by Laura Ware

"The Good Girl" by Lauren Lang

"The Copper Valley Cocoa Conniption Competition" by Kari Kilgore

"Three Spectacular Capers and the Whatever It's Called Beneath the Tree" by Steven Mohan, Jr.

"Larceny's Love Lost and Found" by Leslie Claire Walker

"Shinier Things" by Filip Wiltgren

"The Laws of St. Laurent" by Kelsey Hutton

"The Whole Darn Package" by Karen Abrahamson

"The File Clerk Who Hid in the Cave" by Irette Y. Patterson

"Día de Las Velitas" by Liz Lazo

"A Close Shave" by Thea Hutcheson