Book cover for It Happened on Kringle Avenue by Laura Pauling, showing a snowy Christmas village and an orange tabby catFREE
Book cover for It Happened on Kringle Avenue by Laura Pauling

A free cozy Christmas series prequel

Escape to the Christmas town you’ll wish was real.

Meet Emma Fizzlewick, one opinionated orange cat, and the quirky neighbors of Holly Falls—long before the first murder turns their picture-perfect town upside down.

  • Snowy small-town charm
  • Warm friendships & laugh-out-loud mishaps
  • A full year of cozy surprises

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Meet your new favorite sleuth

Emma has a new name, a new town, and one big secret.

Emma Fizzlewick and Judge Jingles sharing a secret on a snowy Christmas street in Holly Falls

Now she’s running a 130-year-old Christmas inn, pretending she has everything under control, and noticing the things other people miss. Between snowstorms, disastrous baking attempts, and a town that adopts her on sight, her first year in Holly Falls may be her biggest adventure yet.

Emma FizzlewickNew sleuth · Natural-born observer

Your free ticket to Holly Falls

Population 2,847.Christmas spirit: unmeasurable.

Down Kringle Avenue you’ll find a lavender-painted café that always smells like cinnamon, a bookshop that sells mystery novels next to vintage ornaments, a tavern run by two feuding (but devoted) brothers, and a hundred-and-thirty-year-old inn with eight rooms, fifteen acres of Christmas trees, and one extremely opinionated orange cat.

At the center of it all is Emma Fizzlewick.

Emma Fizzlewick investigating with a magnifying glass beside Judge Jingles on a snowy Kringle Avenue

Between snowstorms, sleigh rides, disastrous baking attempts, and a supporting cast who adopt her whether she asks for it or not, her first year in Holly Falls is exactly the kind of cozy, funny, slightly chaotic small-town escape you didn’t know you needed.

The Emma Fizzlewick Mysteries

The mysteries begin this fall.

Meet Emma now—before Holly Falls’ first murder.

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