The new crime thriller by Edgar Award-winning author Andrew Klavan. A young woman is murdered at Christmas in an idyllic US town, and it's up to Cameron Winter to solve the crime and confront his own past.

After a horrific murder, a sleuthing English teacher will need a Christmas miracle to prove a condemned man innocent. Colourful Christmas lights dapple the family homes in the idyllic lakeside town of Sweet Haven when Jennifer Dean, a young librarian at the local elementary school, is brutally murdered. There are witnesses and her boyfriend Travis Blake confesses to the crime... but something doesn't add up. Blake is a third generation Army Ranger, awarded the Silver Star for his heroism in Afghanistan. How could a beloved son of this tight-knit community commit such a grisly deed? Sweet Haven is made up of military families, so no one wants to investigate a war hero. In steps Cameron Winter, a rugged and lonesome English professor haunted by the ghosts of his own Christmas past, whose former lover asks him to prove Blake innocent. The Sweet Haven murder echoes a horrific Yuletide memory from Winter's youth, and he knows the case is even darker than it seems. If he can solve this small-town mystery, just maybe he can find peace from his inner demons too. Reviews for When Christmas Comes 'When Christmas Comes is wonderful, gripping, a pure delight' Dean Koontz 'This terrific holiday-themed novel will leave readers unsettled and hopeful at the same time' Publishers Weekly

"An exciting but tender, heartfelt crime novel about an English professor's attempt to clear a former Army Ranger of murder. It's fast-paced, haunting, with a central character you'll love" - Dean Koontz, AARP The Magazine

"Andrew Klavan's When Christmas Comes is a masterclass in mysteries of the melancholic kind" - John Valeri, Criminal Element

"This terrific holiday-themed novel will leave readers unsettled and hopeful at the same time" - Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Just the thing for one of those lengthening nights between Halloween and Christmas" - Kirkus Reviews