Murder, She Wrote: A Killer Christmas
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4.3 • 12 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
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, Rose Marie, 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 Rose Marie she will never live in his house.
When Rose Marie is found dead a few days later, Kenny is the natural suspect. But Jessica isn′t so sure he′s on the naughty list . . .
Customer Reviews
Not One of the Better Ones
Though I much prefer Terry Farley Moran’s version of this series to Jon Land’s, this one in particular was not worth the $14.99 I paid for it. I knew who the murderer was from the first page they appeared. The red herring was poorly conceived so it added nothing to the book. (Ironic, since as Jessica is working on her new book she realizes that her red herring won’t work…) And the extras that give the characters life weren’t fleshed out - events were planned and apparently happened, with no mention of them beyond the initial planning.
Finally, for some reason this author seems to be insistent that contractions can be used in dialogue on a very limited basis, forcing the reader to re-read passages in their head the way normal conversations happen. It’s getting more annoying the more books she writes.
Next one, I’ll get out of the library. I’m not going to pay $14.99 for an apple book.