Friday, August 22, 2025

Christmas in Branden Bay by Kelly Mason [Review]

Christmas in Branden Bay (Branden Bay Paranormal Cafe #6) by Kelly Mason
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: May 22, 2025

Branden Bay Paranormal Cafe
0.5. Dead Before Midnight
1. The Medium of Branden Bay
2. The Body in Branden Bay
3. The Haunting of Branden Bay
4. The Ghost of Branden Bay
5. Halloween in Branden Bay
6. Christmas in Branden Bay - Paperback | Kindle

Kelly Mason
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
A Christmas choir. A festive fair. A reluctant medium with a Yuletide mystery to solve…

Becky James is determined to pull off the perfect Christmas. Her parents are coming to town, and it’s the first time they’ll be meeting her boyfriend—everything has to be just right. But when she’s roped into carol singing for Branden Bay’s Christmas Lights switch-on, disaster strikes. A choir member is found dead with one of Becky’s mince pies in her mouth… and now everyone is pointing fingers.

With tensions rising among the singers and the Christmas Carol service fast approaching, Becky must untangle the truth before the season of goodwill turns into a season of scandal.
Thoughts on Christmas in Branden Bay: Not going to lie, Becky seems to have a hard time saying No to people sometimes. In some instances this inability puts her in danger. This time? She gets roped into joining a Christmas choir just as her parents are coming home from their world tour.

While the timing isn't great, you'd otherwise think it's a pretty inconsequential thing to get pulled into. HA. Yeah, someone in the choir ends up dead and Becky's suddenly in the middle of another investigation. Seeing as how the woman who died was not universally loved by, well, anyone (except maybe her son), Becky has A LOT of people who could have done the deed. Not that the police believe foul play was necessarily involved, but once Becky gets an earful of the deceased's nightly singing, she knows she needs to figure things out.

On the upside, Bad Cop Brad might be possibly maybe coming around to believing that Becky can see (and talk to) ghosts. Or it might just have been his desire to close this particular case before his impending paternity leave. Only time will tell on that end.

While this book technically ends this series, Becky's ability has settled and is raring to go so there COULD be more ghostly shenanigans for her in the future. Plus, there's the thing with her parents. And H. I mean, I wouldn't mind reading more Becky and Connie cat as they put themselves in mortal danger and solve crime. Just saying.

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