The Knife Before Christmas

Fixer-Upper Mysteries, Book 11

By: Kate Carlisle

Narrated by: Jae Delane

Contractor Shannon Hammer hopes for a peaceful Christmas with her fiancé, Mac, until murder throws a wrench in her holiday plans in a brand-new installment of the USA Today best-selling Fixer-Upper Mystery Series.

Christmas has come to Lighthouse Cove, but business hasn’t slowed down for Shannon Hammer. She’s been contracted to renovate a local hotel owned by the Garrisons, a family that’s so devoted to the holidays they serve a seven-course dinner every night from Thanksgiving through Christmas. Last year’s festivities featured a train that transported guests around the breathtaking Cliffside property. This year, Shannon and her crew have been commissioned to build a Victorian-style carnival midway with games and prizes galore.

Everyone in town loves the hotel’s spirit, except the Garrisons’ children and their spouses, who are hum-bugged by the money being wasted on holiday cheer while their inheritance goes up the chimney. Things turn nasty when a mischief-maker close to the family is found dead. It’s up to Shannon and Mac to catch a sinister Scrooge before all of Lighthouse Cove receives coal for Christmas.

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Keeps you guessing

This was a great mystery with twists and turns and an unexpected culprit. Nice to follow characters portrayed on Hallmark’s Fixer Upper mystery movies.

Just Fine

I Like the mysteries, but I figured it out very early on who the killer was. Also,she mentioned Whitney and Tommy’s three daughters. That’s odd since they had a son named Tyler in the last book. The narrator is fine. She needs to work on her male voices and as always, the author needs to get at thesaurus and stop using the word grin over and over again. Please have these people grow up some; I teach high school and my students are less dramatic.

Nothing

Weak plot, horrible character voices sounds like high school drama interspersed throughout. What grown successful women give energy to such nonsense and antics? Why not focus on wedding dates and venues rather than high school architecture ene

Okay by predictable and slow

This was not a bad book just mediocre (in my opinion). Slow and predictable but there are some pretty word pictures.

Chapter 14

I LOLd and clapped my hands laughing. I loved that ending was fun, funny and satisfying.