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yellowdogintexas

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19. Another Kat Makris novel "Winter Crime" by Alex King. Like all the others it is funny, has great characters
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 01:20 AM
Tuesday

great dialogue and a mystery.

I really needed this hilarious trip to Greece.

Kat Makris is back in Winter Crime, and she’s sporting a new hairdo courtesy of her most recent stylist: fire.

It’s a frigid January, and Kat and her appalling ‘do are stuck at the promenade, performing family duties for the Epiphany festivities. When Father Harry tosses the cross into the water, the divers pull out a bonus dead guy—a dead guy who used to be tight with Kat’s family—and Family.

Although the curiosity is killing her (all Greek DNA comes with a bonus cat hair), Kat has bigger problems. This raging head cold for one. Sexy police detective Nikos Melas won’t come near her because he’s terrified of his mother’s cold remedies, and the dangerously delicious Xander is missing—again. And then there’s the stolen cassette that doesn’t want to be found. Grandma hid it around here somewhere, she just knows it …

Things go haywire when Kat winds up as the recipient of an unusual bequest—a bequest that ruffles a serious amount of feathers. When her lineage is called into question and someone starts shooting at her, Kat wonders if she’d be better off spending winter in the dungeon, hibernating with her bear.

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