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This was a great holiday read that felt like a Hallmark movie and will appeal to mystery and romance readers alike! 

 

Our main characters are authors (swoon!), we’re taken to an English estate in the countryside (double swoon), and one of the greatest mystery writers of all time disappears from a locked room (i am deceased!! 🫠🤩) 

 

This book was such a fun time and really did the damn thing in checking all of the boxes! 

This was really cute!!

A really fun addition to the Ernest Cunningham series!! 

This one definitely plays best if you’ve read the prior two novels, and if you haven’t read it this season, to start it on Dec 1 of next year and have it unfold like an advent calendar!

A really solid collection of crime fiction set around Christmas! I enjoyed some stories better than others, but, honestly, none of them were a miss!

First off, 10/10 for this cover and the illustrations!! 🤩 

I would have absolutely devoured these as a middle schooler!

Cate Kay is one of the most successful authors of her generation, but she doesn’t really exist. Growing up in a small town in New York, Annie and her best friend Amanda dreamed of leaving and becoming big-named actors. However, tragedy strikes and Annie flees, leaving herself behind and becoming someone new in the process. Changing identities and constantly running, it’s finally time for Cate Kay to return home.

THE THREE LIVES OF CATE KAY by Kate Fagan is a fictional memoir told from multiple characters’ POVs, which I found to be done in such a clever and effective way.

Compared to EVELYN HUGO, what we get is a story spanning decades, full of love, loss, heartbreak, and Hollywood. 

While I don’t think this book should have the “thriller” label attributed to it, I did find myself flying through this one thanks to the shorter chapters and the puzzle piece dropping that comes with the multiple points of view! It’s more of a fictional drama if anything and I ATE THIS SHIT UP!

Kate Fagan brings a beautiful new voice to fiction!

Thanks to NetGalley and Atria Books for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Publication Date: January 7

This one really brought back a lot of the magic that was The Nature of Witches for me!

This book is dark and gorey and all set to the tune of You Better Watch Out.

I’m surprised by how much I found some of the characters to be so likable, but when people are being m*rdered in awful awful ways, it’s easy to hope someone will make it out unscathed 😅

I really enjoyed the grief aspects of this story - especially being so centered on the holidays!

I think the whole story would have been better off without the movie and movie star plot though 🥴