My Review
Nothing gets me in the Christmas spirit quite so well as a trip to Murder She Wrote’s Cabot Cove, Maine. Jessica is expecting A Killer Christmas, what with her nephew, his wife, and their adorable son coming to visit. However, Christmas is a killer this year in more ways than one.
The entire town is competing to become Maine’s Christmas Town with a whirlwind of carols, cookies, kids’ story times, elves, and a Christmas Day parade. Jessica, Seth, Mort and the gang are heavily involved in planning all the events when a woman dies mysteriously. Of course, Jessica must investigate.
All the books in this series are a delight to read. However, this one really amps up the Christmas spirit. Even though it is in the high 90s as I write this in early October, I feel a bit of snowy chill in the air and smell the aroma of gingerbread cookies wafting by. The atmosphere is perfect for reading in a comfy chair with a cup of tea nearby.
If you feel more in a New Year’s Eve mood, you can always take a shot whenever Jessica pours herself some tea or coffee. I guarantee that you will be feeling no pain within the first 100 pages. That lady loves her caffeine!
A Killer Christmas is a fun and relaxing cozy mystery. The whodunnit is easy to solve but that really isn’t the point. The setting, the upbeat characters, and just being with what feels like family is the reason to read this book. It is so enjoyable to hang out with Jessica forty years after first meeting her. She hasn’t aged at all, and now I am suddenly, or so it seems, her contemporary. Weird how that works! 4 stars!
Thanks to Great Escapes Book Tours, NetGalley and Berkley for providing me with an advanced review copy.
About Murder, She Wrote: A Killer Christmas
It’s Christmastime in Cabot Cove, but there’s more homicide than ho-ho-ho in the newest entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series.
Christmas is not an easy time to sell a house, but in Boston tycoon John Bragdon, Cabot Cove Realtor Eve Simpson has found a buyer for the old Jarvis homestead. Unfortunately, Eve gets a lump of coal in her stocking in the form of Kenny Jarvis, who has been missing for years and presumed dead but has now come back to stop his sister from selling their childhood home.
Eve presses on, organizing a welcome dinner for Bragdon and his wife, Marlene, to meet the leading citizens of the town, including Jessica Fletcher. Dinner is interrupted by an uninvited guest—not Santa but Kenny, who threateningly promises Marlene she will never live in his house.
When Marlene is found dead a few days later, Kenny is the natural suspect. But Jessica isn′t so sure he′s on the naughty list . . .
About the Authors
Along with Jessica Fletcher, Terrie Farley Moran co-writes the Murder She Wrote mystery series including Murder, She Wrote: Killer on the Court. She is the author of the Read ‘Em and Eat cozy mystery series and also co-writes the Scrapbooking Mysteries with Laura Childs. Recipient of both the Agatha and the Derringer Awards, Moran has published numerous mystery short stories. The only thing Terrie enjoys more than wrangling mystery plots into submission is hanging out with any or all of her seven grandchildren.
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Oh wow! What a unique idea of taking a shot every time Jessica has tea or coffee. What a lovely review and you are so right, Here it is, after forty years, I still find hanging with Jessica to be the most fun ever but I am a bit envious that she never ages while I…well that’s another story!!!