The Inn at Holiday Bay

Turkey in the Trap-Room

By: Kathi Daley

Narrated by: Angel Clark

A heartwarming cozy mystery series about losing everything, taking a chance, and starting again.

After suffering a personal tragedy, Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus, a drifter with her own tragic past named Georgia, and a giant dog with an inferiority complex named Ramos. What Abby thought she needed was alone time to heal. What she ended up with was, an inn she never knew she wanted, a cat she couldn't seem to convince to leave, and a new family she'd never be able to live without.

In book 12 in the series, Lacy takes over as director for the local Thanksgiving Pageant after the director they had appointed is bitten by a snake. The pageant seems to have met with bad luck from the beginning, but when the star is found dead in the trap-room, Abby becomes convinced the entire production is cursed.

Meanwhile, new guests check into the inn, including three half sisters, all the same age, who never even knew of the existence of their half siblings prior to the reading of their grandmother's will. Their grandmother left each granddaughter a third of her extensive fortune, but in order to collect the inheritance, the sisters must work together to find answers and make decisions in the 10 days allotted them to do so.

©2020 Kathi Daley (P)2021 Kathi Daley

Robot for a narrator

The writing is fine but the narration is awful. Angel (the narrator is capable of using inflection and sometimes uses it. She goes into robot mode and it is difficult to listen to the storyline.

Narration was disappointing

The narration really detracted from the story. It was both childlike and robotic. I'd recommend skipping this audio book.