Book Blurb:
'Tis the season . . . for murder.
When Special Agents Holly Frost and Mark Shepherd report to the idyllic town of Christmas to investigate a very less than idyllic murder, they’re in for more than the average whodunnit.
Welcome to Christmas, a town so cozy and charming it could be the backdrop of a Hallmark movie, where crime is never in season and it’s the holidays all year round. So when a tourist is found stabbed to death by an icicle in the middle of the town nativity scene, the local police are out of their depth—after all, how do you find a criminal in a town where crime doesn't exist?
The stakes are the whole town is relying on Holly and Mark to solve the crime before the annual Jingle Bell Jubilee festival (which naturally the town's entire economic survival relies on), plus, whichever of them cracks the case will receive a promotion to Major Crimes—and there's only one spot.
Holly and Mark are both on thin ice after screwing up on the job. This assignment is their one shot at redemption, if they can put aside their bitter rivalry. And of course, it's not only their jobs on the line, it's their hearts, too—regrets of their holiday party hookup last year haunt them like ghosts of Christmas past, so they both want to wrap up this rom-com gone wrong as quickly as possible. But with just twelve days until the festival, the countdown to catch a killer—without killing each other—is on.
Tropes:
*Netgalley ALC *Cozy Mystery *Enemies --> more *Small town romance *forced proximity
*one bed *Hallmark meets mystery *Spice *Christmas season *holiday town *work relationship
*police officers *Insta lust/love (ish) *Who dun it
Thoughts:
Holly and Mark have a history together last year at the office christmas party they may have given into temptation in a closet... against Holly's better judgment it's not happening again especially since Mark got the promotion to Major Crimes that Holly wanted.
Now Holly and Mark are both in trouble at work due to different reasons... and basically to set an example and because no one else can do it they are sent to a small town crime scene where the town could double as the set to a hallmark movie... these types of things don't happen in this town and the local law enforcement has requested assistance in the investigation.
They can do this they just need to get along and work together... only things start going wrong pretty much right away there is only one room at the Inn. Solving this case means everything to both of them they need to wrap up the case to save their jobs, and with Christmas quickly approaching in this Christmas town it's important to everyone that the culprit gets caught before the big annual festival.
Naturally these two working so closely together rekindles something between them that they have a hard time resisting.
This book was like a hallmark movie and a cozy 💀 mystery had a baby, The jokes are fairly cheesy throughout and a lot of things that happen in this book were ridiculous, I thought it was a good time that had me laughing throughout... don't go into the book expecting things to be super serious, it's not.
Thank you to the authors and Netgalley for this ALC the narrators Angela Dawe, Colin Donnell and Patti Murin did a great job bringing this story to life.
The story is fast paced and added enough shady characters that it made it interesting to figure out which shady character was naughty this christmas.
I enjoyed this one but here are some Negatives:
*Holly believes that everything Mark does is to get one over on her and get the promotion (he already has the promotion)
*comes off as a parody trying too hard
*Names are too corny, over the top cheesy/cringe dialogue
*Nothing really happened between the couple to make it feel like their feelings were as strong as they were, too insta lust/love
have you read this one? What did you think?
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