Mrs. Claus and the Trouble with Turkeys (Mrs. Claus #4) by Liz Ireland #bookreview #mystery

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Title: Mrs. Claus and the Trouble with Turkeys

Author:  Liz Ireland

Publisher: Kensington

Publication Date: Sept 26, 2023

Page Count:  288

My rating: 4 stars

About the book:

It’s year-round Christmas cheer in this creative and witty mystery series featuring a unique heroine who’s married to the real-life Santa Claus and living in the North Pole. In Santaland, it’s beginning to look a lot like…Thanksgiving…and in between the festivities, April Claus must track down a killer hiding amid a parade of suspects…

At Castle Kringle, the elves are excitedly arranging their first ever Thanksgiving day feast. April’s husband, Nick—the real Santa—has some misgivings, since it’s tough to get ready for Christmas when everyone is obsessed with helium balloons and pie recipes. Chaos erupts when Gobbles, the live turkey imported for the castle feast, is bird-napped. That crime is quickly overshadowed at a pre-Thanksgiving potluck when Nick’s cousin, Elspeth, face-plants into her mashed potatoes—dead.

Someone poisoned Elspeth, and April believes Constable Crinkle is hauling the wrong suspect off to jail. An ominous message, written in what seems to be blood and urging April to stop investigating, only convinces her more. But who’s really to blame? Where is Gobbles the turkey? And can April solve a double helping of mystery in time for everyone to sit down to a non-deadly dinner together?

Mrs. Claus and the Trouble with Turkeys by Liz Ireland is the fourth book in the cozy Mrs. Claus series. As with most cozy mystery series each book in the Mrs. Claus series features it’s own mystery that will be fully solved with that book so they can each be read as a standalone or in any order if choosing to do so. There will be some character development that carries over from book to book though for those that follow the series from the beginning.

April Claus was just a regular woman living in the United States when she met Nick, the man she just knew she’d be spending the rest of her life with. What April didn’t know or suspect at the time was that the wonderful Nick she was going to marry was none other than THE Santa Claus. After marrying Nick April found herself moving to Christmastown in Santaland at the North Pole and living among elves with Christmas celebrated year round.

As April’s third holiday season in Santaland is approaching she has decided to start teaching the year round Christmas village how to celebrate other holidays along the way. The elves are busy arranging the first Thanksgiving feast at Castle Kringle when chaos erupts when, Gobbles, the turkey meant to be the center of the feast is bird napped. As everyone is frantic over what to do to save the feast though Nick’s cousin Elspeth is poisoned quickly overshadowing the missing bird and leaving April a bigger mystery to solve quickly.

Liz Ireland’s Mrs. Claus series is the type of cozy that readers who favor quirky over the top characters and hilarious antics will love. When you bring in all things Christmas to a fun mystery I couldn’t help but fall in love with this series and enjoy coming back to it year after year. It was fun this time to throw in a Thanksgiving twist to all things Christmas in the town with all the normals crazy antics and I’ll definitely look forward to seeing that comes along next in the series.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

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About the author:

Liz Ireland, author of the Mrs. Claus cozy mystery series, has written over forty works of romance, women’s fiction, and mystery. She also publishes under the names Elizabeth Bass and Liz Freeland. Originally from the United States, she now lives on beautiful Vancouver Island in British Columbia.