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About Murder, She Wrote: A Killer Christmas

Murder, She Wrote: A Killer Christmas
Cozy Mystery
59th in Series
Setting – Maine
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley (October 8, 2024)
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593640721
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593640722
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CRTW3Z9N

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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MY REVIEW

When I opened the pages to my wonderful book, I never anticipated the depth of the story. It’s not an overly long book, but it contained so much deliciousness, I couldn’t put it down. Amanda Siegrist writes clean romance and this time she has tossed in some ghosts and vampires to create The Third Time’s The Charm.

Kade’s first wife died in a car crash on a winter’s night. He was the driver. His second wife just happened to fall down the stairs of their home. How could the third time possible be a charm? We’ll have to solve the mystery of the deaths, plus the enigma that is Bailey.

Near the end of the book, Amanda had me worried terribly for Bailey. I thought I knew what was going to happen with her, but she had me second guessing myself. Good one, Amanda.

In comes the Ghostbusters, Mason and Mona. I quickly great to add them to my list of inquiries. I wanted to know their story, and it looks like I’m going to get it, in The Paranormal Chronicles, Volume I. Will I learn of Donnie and Joe? Will they get their own story? And Charly? She was a complete surprise for me. I was leery of her, suspicious of her motives for dropping in with goodies for Kade to sample. Like Bailey, I wanted to yell, “Don’t eat the pie….Don’t eat the cookies.”

So many fabulous characters I can only hope they will all get to tell their stories.

It’s rare when a clean story can earn five stars from me, but Third Time’s The Charm by Amanda Siegrist kept on giving, right til the very last word was read.

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GOODREADS BLURB

From USA Today bestselling author Amanda Siegrist comes a new paranormal series that is going to be hauntingly suspenseful fun!

He’s not running this time…

Kade thought nothing could be worse than when his wife died in a car accident—especially because he’d been behind the wheel. To forget the pain, he moved on. Maybe too quickly. Now he’s the prime suspect in the death of his second wife. But they have nothing on him because he didn’t kill her.

Buying a house that needs more repairs than it’s worth seems like a good escape. When he meets Bailey, despite everything telling him to look away, guard his heart, he can’t help but fall under her charm. There’s just one problem. She’s a ghost. There can’t be any harm in loving a ghost, right? Nothing can hurt her, not even him. Except there’s another presence in the house. One that terrifies her.

Between contending with a pesky detective determined to peg him for murder, a ghost he’s falling in love with, and the mysterious accidents that keep happening to him at work, Kade fears he might be joining Bailey on the other side sooner rather than later.

Genre: Fiction, Ghosts, Paranormal, Romance, Supernatural, Vampires, Witches
264 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 13, 2023

ABOUT AMANDA SIEGRIST

Love! Gimme some love and heaps of romance. I have a sappy heart that just loves two people meeting, going through the cycles of a relationship, and ultimately, falling in love. Give me a good book like that and I’m a happy camper:)

I write contemporary and romantic suspense, but I am partial to suspense. I just love a good mystery.

Besides writing, I love baking, crafts, and baseball…oh, and meeting new people. *smiles*

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