Christmas Cocoa Murder

Written by Carlene O'Connor, Maddie Day and Alex Erickson

Narrated by Amy Landon

"CHRISTMAS COCOA MURDER" by Carlene O'Connor

Siobhán O'Sullivan's hopes for a quiet Irish Christmas are dashed when the local Santa turns up dead in a carnival dunk tank of hot cocoa. Now instead of hunting down holiday gifts, she's pursuing a heartless killer. Seems the dead Santa was no angel either, stealing neighborhood dogs to guide his sleigh. But was it his holiday antics-or worse-that led to his death by chocolate?

"CHRISTMAS COCOA AND A CORPSE" by Maddie Day

When local businessman Jed Greenberg is found dead with a Chocolate lab whimpering over his body, the police start sniffing around Robbie Jordan's country restaurant for answers. Was it something in Robbie's hot cocoa that killed Jed, or was it Cocoa the dog? As the suspects pile as high as her holiday tree, Robbie attempts to get to the bottom of the sickly-sweet murder . . .

"DEATH BY HOT COCOA" by Alex Erickson

A Christmas-themed escape game seems like the perfect pre-holiday treat for bookstore cafe owner Krissy Hancock and her best friend. But when the host is found dead in a pool of hot cocoa, it's up to Krissy and her team to catch the killer-or escape before getting killed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Jun 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781666147223

Carlene O'Connor

Carlene O'Connor comes from a long line of Irish storytellers. Her great-grandmother emigrated from Ireland to America during the Troubles, and the stories have been flowing ever since. Of all the places across the pond she's wandered, she fell most in love with a walled town in County Limerick and was inspired to create the town of Kilbane, County Cork. She currently divides her time between New York and the Emerald Isle.

Reviews for Christmas Cocoa Murder

[Katie Bartlett · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I feel bad leaving one star since this is really nothing about the written content but all about the narration. I made it about two minutes into it before I couldn’t stand it anymore and shut it off. I’ll probably go and read this as an ebook instead of the audiobook since I like Carlene O’Connor and am happy to give the others a shot, but it won’t be with this narrator.

[Amber Johnson · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A fun little read with a caveat…I like this character and this author. This narrator, however, missed so many opportunities for comedic inflection! Actually, she missed a great deal of inflection generally, coming off sounding more like an AI audio track than a human. If you can get past that, then the story is cozy.

[Renee · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The story was good, but the readers fake Irish accents were awful. It would have been better to just narrate the story. Glad I decided to listen to this one last despite it being out of order.