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The Knife Before Christmas

Fixer-Upper Mysteries, Book 11

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The Knife Before Christmas

By: Kate Carlisle
Narrated by: Jae Delane
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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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About the Creator-Kate Carlisle

About the Creator

New York Times bestselling author Kate Carlisle worked in television for many years before turning to writing. Inspired by the northern seaside towns of her native California, where Victorian mansions grace the craggy cliffs and historic lighthouses warn fishermen and smugglers alike, Kate was drawn to create the Fixer-Upper Mysteries, featuring small-town girl Shannon Hammer, a building contractor specializing in home restoration. Kate also writes the New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mysteries, featuring Brooklyn Wainwright.

About the performer-Jae Delane

About the Performer

Jae Delane is the pseudonym used by award-winning audiobook narrator, Jeanette Illidge. An Earphones Award recipient and two-time Audie Award nominee, her expressive and versatile performances can be heard on a little over 100 books across a broad range of genres, most notably in YA fiction, romance, and fantasy. A graduate of The Savannah College of Art & Design with a BFA in performing arts, Jeanette is a trained theater actor with over 15 years of professional performance experience. She has a love of books and a sincere passion for storytelling, and she strives to honor the words and the work of each and every author. Proud member of SAG-AFTRA. Learn more at iamjeanette.com.

Engaging Characters • Intriguing Mystery • Stellar Performance • Great Sleuthing Team • Entertaining Plot
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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.

Keeps you guessing

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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.

Just Fine

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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

Nothing

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

Okay by predictable and slow

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

Chapter 14

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Always enjoy a story by Lynn Cahoon. She makes up great story lines and characters

Love the characters

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The Knife Before Christmas (Fixer-Upper Mystery) by Kate Carlisle
Rating: 4 stars (Audiobook narrated by Jae Delane)
The Knife Before Christmas is the 11th book in Kate Carlisle's Fixer-Upper Mystery series and it is a good addition to the series. It is Christmas and contractor Shannon Hammer and her crew have a job setting up and running the Fun Zone with a carousel, old-fashioned games and Santa. The Fun Zone is part of the Garrison family's hotel and it is a popular local attraction. There are quite a few members of the Garrison family plus Shannon, her fiance Mac, sister Chloe, Chloe's boyfriend the Police Chief, and some locals. Kate Carlisle does a good job with helping the reader keep all of the characters straight. One of the Garrison family members ends up dead and Shannon and Mac find them. The death is a bit gruesome and the details are mentioned a few times. Shannon and Mac make a great sleuthing team and I like how they discuss the details especially because Mac is a famous thriller writer. At times it seems like the characters and relationships overshadow the cozy mystery. There are many warm moments which are nice in a Christmas cozy. This was an enjoyable story and the audiobook is well done. #TheKnifeBeforeChristmas #AFixerUpperMystery #Berkley #KateCarlisle

Christmas Fixer-Upper Cozy Mystery

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Well written cozy mystery with engaging characters and an entertaining plot. I look forward to the next book.

5 stars

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Kate Carlisle has written another great addition to her Fixer Up mystery series. It has all the usual characters as found in earlier installments as well as an intriguing mystery.
Jae Delane gave a stellar performance as she breathed life into the storyline and gave each character their own distinct voice.
I look forward to the next installment in this wonderful series and highly recommend it to cozy mystery fans.

Another great addition

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I have thoroughly enjoyed each book in the “Fixer-Upper Series”! I even went to Kate Carlisle’s website and joined to keep up with when the next book will be created and published. One of the things that bothered me was the changing of the performers. Sometimes that can change my visual perception of various characters. However, each of them grew on me and I was able to accept the change and morph my visuals to meet the performers voices for Shannon, Mac and the Gang. I’m definitely going to check out her “Bibliophile Mysteries” Series.

Hoping that this is NOT the end of the Series …

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