The Christmas Alibi

A Christmas Murder Mystery

By: J.G. Colgan

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Snowed in for the holidays with a killer? It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

December 1938. As storm clouds gather over Europe, a group of bright young things are spending a festive weekend at Hexham Hall, the grand Northumberland estate of the genial Colonel ‘Monty’ Talbot. Hexham Hall has all the right ingredients for a perfect holiday: roaring fires, flowing brandy, a glittering cast of guests, and a relentless blizzard cutting them off from the world. What could possibly go wrong?

Plenty...

There’s the Colonel’s dazzling niece, Vanessa, whose past romantic entanglements are coming back to haunt her—along with most of the men in the drawing room. Her sensible cousin Maggie just wants a peaceful Christmas with her new husband but finds herself playing nurse to a house full of secrets. Add a handsome war hero, a slippery MP, his elegant wife, a journalist with a hidden agenda, and a mysterious stranger who arrives on the doorstep out of the snow, and you have a recipe for disaster.

When one of the guests turns up dead after a ghost story, not from fright, but from a decidedly un-festive dose of cyanide, it becomes clear this won’t be a silent night. Trapped by the snow and with the telephones dead, the festive cheer evaporates faster than the sherry.

In the snow-locked hall, old flames, political betrayals, and financial ruin simmer beneath the surface as they investigate the poisoning. Every guest is a potential killer and an amateur sleuth. The line between uncovering a murderer or a murder victim is terrifyingly thin. This is not the merry Christmas anyone anticipated.

Containing a ghost short story-with-a-story, you’ll find this a gripping, atmospheric murder mystery to enjoy on a cold, Christmas night…

Liked the mystery

Hated the voice. Monotone with no feeling. Hated it. Lots and lots and lots. Great mystery. Voice was awful

Classic Christmas Murder Mystery

Very fun listen and perfect for the holiday season. This one is a Classic Christmas Murder Mystery :)

Virtual Voice Frustrating

The storyline was okay although one of the characters changed her career from nurse to teacher mysteriously in the middle of the book. That would be overlook-able, however the virtual narrator was annoying. There were pauses in the narration where the author didn’t intend and misreadings of chapter titles. The narration did the author a disservice, I think it would have been a much better book had it been narrated appropriately.