Eggnog, Extortion, & Evergreens

Camper and Criminals Cozy Mystery Series, Book 14

By: Tonya Kappes

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

Mae West is busy this Christmas season. She's running around Normal getting the town ready for the first Winter Festival, which she hopes will become an annual event for the tourist town.

The freshly fallen snow sure does make the Daniel Boone National Park beautiful and ready for Santa's arrival, but it also makes the curvy roads through the forest very slick. Unfortunately, Mae finds out just how slick the roads are after her car slides off the road and hits a tree, putting Mae into a deep coma.

Mae is one of the lucky patients who does wake up and happy to celebrate Christmas with family and friends.

One of the patients in the emergency room with Mae didn't die that night of natural causes, and Hank Sharp has himself a new homicide case on his hands.

Mae starts having memories about the fire that took her family and a memory of a murder plot that she thinks happened when she was in her coma. Only, she's having a hard time distinguishing between the two memories and the clues seem to have blurred lines. There's one thing she does know for sure - both incidents come with clues that neither were accidents.

©2020 Tonya Kappes (P)2021 Tantor

So fun to listen to

Love that these books keep the same people and location. Let’s you fall in love with the whole group

Must read!!!

I so want to live in this campground and be apart of this amazing group of people. Tonya Kappes hits another home run!!! what a wonderful storyteller, so glad I found her!!!

Another winner

Didn’t see that plot twist coming. I really enjoy May and the team. The writing is good and the narrator fantastic.

Eggnog, Extortion and Evergreen

Eggnog, Extortion, & Evergreen
Campers & Criminals book 14. Cozy mystery. Best read as part of the series in order.
It’s almost Christmas in Normal, Ok. The snowy and slick roads cause Mae to slide off the road and she ends up unconscious in the ER. While she’s unconscious she hears someone planning a murder. When she wakes up, she asks questions until she’s the one in danger.

Entertaining with a few surprising twists. Mae is remembering more of her childhood at the same time so while all of these mysteries have a lot of bodies, this one looks more to the past. We learn a bit more with each book about the fire that killed her parents.

🎧 I listened to the audio version narrated by Johanna Parker who has done the full series to-date. She does a fantastic job with the southern drawl and different character voices. I listened to this at 1.5 which is faster than my preferred because it upped the drawl to a more reasonable talking speed.
I prefer the audiobook format for this author since it tends to hide the editing errors of the print versions.