Murder She Wrote: A Killer Christmas

Murder, She Wrote, Book 59

By: Jessica Fletcher, Terrie Farley Moran

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

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…

©2024 Jessica Fletcher and Terrie Farley Moran (P)2024 Dreamscape Media

Another great one!

I love this entire series. This book is no exception. I love that Mrs. Farley is adding her talent to the mix.

Quaint, cozy and clean as this “Murder, She Wrote Series” always is.

The narrator sounded like a robot at times. In other novels in this series, her narration seemed better; Maybe the sentences being lengthy contributed to her narration. When a character spoke, the narration was somewhat better. The novel was slow in the beginning, and became more interesting toward the latter chapters.

It is a cozy mystery!

I love that the reader sounds like Angela Landsbury. I also love the thrill of small town committee meetings. And even though there were so many servings of tea and coffee, no one ever used the bathroom. And there you have it, the perfect cozy mystery, all the beauty of small lives and relationships and daily rituals and none of the gritty details. Great listen to help me get through my own monotonous chores :)

great narration; good story

i think merlington is the best narrator of the series; story was good not great/. and it still (all these books in!) bothers me that maureen has replaced adele and i'll never get over it hahah. i wish they would just switch back (like they did in one book). no one would complain! but overall story was good, love the cabot cove based stories generally.

The progressive ideology

Murder she wrote has always been a traditional, wholesome mystery series. why change it? Why does the author think it’s OK to portray something that goes completely against God’s design as being acceptable?