Puss Reboots: Blog: July 2024: The Twelve Books of Christmas

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The Twelve Books of Christmas: 07/28/24

The Twelve Books of Christmas by Kate Carlisle and Kimberly M. Wetherell (Narrator) (2023) is the seventeenth book in the Bibliophile mystery series. Brooklyn and Derek have been invited to Scotland for the New Year's wedding of Claire and Cameron. While there, Brooklyin is tasked with finding a dozen Christmas themed books from the castle library.

There's also a pair of murders that are really more like afterthoughts than major plot points to this book. I swear these two deaths are included because it's expected of the cozy mystery genre. The missing books and the slanderous rumors being spread about Claire through the village would have been enough of a mystery.

Let's be blunt, Kate Carlisle isn't very good at writing subtle villains. The villains in this book spent the entire book being obvious enough that even the other characters in the mystery mention it. What keeps the villains at hand is Cameron's sense of decorum as the laird. Two people end up dead because he was too slow to act.

Four stars