Christmas Wrapped Intrigue: A Violet Carlyle & Friends Mystery

by Beth Byers

In this short Christmas caper, Denny has solved his first crime and has sworn not to solve another. His friends, however, are contagious. This time, Denny notices something is amiss with Father Christmas. Meddling a little seemed harmless until he stumbles on a real crime.Before he can help himself, he's been arrested for something he didn't do and needs to prove his innocence. Soon, coal in his stocking is the least of the things Denny needs to worry about. There are the crimes that are chasing him into a trap that he's not prepared to escape. Will Denny slide out of troulbe or will he find himself in shackles on Christmas morning?

71 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 21, 2023

Reviews

[Larry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Poor Denny cannot catch a break! He is jailed again, twice, in this story, trying to stop the fake Saint Nicholas from stealing money from his neighbors, in the guise of giving it to the orphanages. Still, after enlisting help from old school chums, he finally catches the thieves. I highly recommend this short story.

[S A R · Rating 3 out of 5]

Needs editing

Beth Byers has several books using the same characters but from different points of view. They're coming fast and furious but the editing is lacking. There are lots of misspellings, duplicate passages and general errors that come from rushing your books to print. This is very disappointing. Slow down. Get back to basics. Don't ruin a good series.

[Marcia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cute story, but so many typos, spelling and grammatical errors made it a difficult read. It was as if the author typed it out and did not proof read it. That definitely affected my enjoyment of story.

[Nina Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

Christmas Wrapped

You go Denny. Great read. Your adventure explains another book. Good job. I await the next installment. Merry Christmas. And Happy New Year.

[Gillie Walker · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the Violet characters and series. I love the A Smith series. Denny as the stumble-bum hero just doesn’t do it for me.

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfect

This was a great little Christmas mystery novella. It's less mystery and more Denny wandering into multiple fights but it was done well anyway.

[Sharon Koop · Rating 2 out of 5]

Poor Editing

It is not up to the author's usual decent storyline. Very poor editing! I was disappointed. The character of Denny is often very interesting.

[Lori · Rating 5 out of 5]

A festive quick read!

A lovely side story to the Vi and friends series. Is your love them as much as I do then I highly recommend it!

[Martha Turner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Denny strike again

A very cute book for this time of year. I really enjoyed this short book. Denny is always getting into some predictment but it all turns out okay in the end.

[Grandmother Perry · Rating 4 out of 5]

cute

Ridiculously funny and a chance to see the world from a less logical perspective and from the eyes of pure love