Book #125 |
Book: A Santa Stabbing | Author: Geri Krotow | |
| Source: Free BookBub download Format: Kindle |
Pages: 266 | Duration: 12/13/25 – 12/14/25 (2 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★☆☆ | Genres: fiction, cozy mystery, Christmas, crime, murder | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Naval aviator turned amateur sleuth finds dead body in shop. 🖌6-word review: Strong female characters. Interesting, without schmaltz. |
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| 💭A humorous quote: “It’s part of being in retail.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: narthex, psittacines, weir | |||
| Description:* Retired Navy pilot Angel Warren’s new life awaits in Stonebridge, Pennsylvania, where she’s opening Shop ‘Round the World, her travel-inspired gift and novelty shop. A newly empty nester and longtime widow, she’s looking forward to leaving her flying career and its many life-or-death decisions behind and reconnecting with family and friends. Right now, Angel’s biggest challenge is getting the shop ready for its grand opening just weeks before Christmas. Until she finds a dead body in the shop murdered with one of her specialty Santa figurines. Even worse, Angel’s fingerprints are on the “weapon” and she’s a prime suspect. It doesn’t help that the deceased is an old friend who’s collected a long list of enemies as a cut-throat real estate agent. And then there’s the Stonebridge Chief of Police—and Angel’s high school BFF—who brings her in for questioning. If Angel wants to clear her name before the Christmas rush, she’s going to need to do some sleuthing on her own—and with the help of her stressed out parrot, Ralph.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: I gave the storyline of this typical cozy mystery 4 stars, but I had to subtract a star for my overall rating due to a dozen “missed edits,” including wrong words (e.g., “What so you mean by ‘everything?'”), missing words, (e.g., “Got a good night’s in my own bed last night.”), or repeated words (e.g., “Knock off the bigger suspects off first.”) and for hyphenating the word “Stonebridge” (which is used a lot) sometimes as “Stoneb-ridge” and “Stonebri-dge,” WTF? Also, ditch the parrot! I don’t know why annoying pets are included in some stories. This story is one of them. On the plus side, there are two LGBT couples in the story. And interestingly enough, this is the 2nd book in a week that has had Matryoshka dolls as props in them. This is the final holiday-related book I’m going to read. I like to read at least one at this time of the year. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
