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    Santa 365: A Chet and Bernie Mystery eShort Story
    Santa 365: A Chet and Bernie Mystery eShort Story
    Santa 365: A Chet and Bernie Mystery eShort Story
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    Santa 365: A Chet and Bernie Mystery eShort Story

    Written by Spencer Quinn

    Narrated by Jim Frangione

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    Santa doesn't just deliver gifts-he takes them too!-in this delightful holiday e-short featuring New York Times bestselling sleuths Chet and Bernie. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. This year, jolly old St. Nick knows Bernie has been sleeping on preparations for a special Christmas celebration with his son Charlie. Enter Plumpy Napoleon, fresh from a short stint in prison, to save Bernie from the naughty list. Plumpy calls his latest business plan "Santa 365." For a small fee (that only gets bigger), he'll fill your life with holiday cheer, including elves, a festive party, gifts, and even a Christmas tree delivered right to your front door. Bernie signs on for the full yuletide experience. But after the blowout holiday bash, Bernie and Chet the dog discover one of Santa's helpers helped himself to more than Christmas candy. The intrepid duo sets out to find the sticky-fingered perp and reclaim the stolen goods. Add in a surprise visit from Bernie's mom, two elderly sisters seeking their own brand of justice, and an elf with a stocking full of secrets, and you have a Christmas mystery that only Chet and Bernie could possibly unwrap.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateNov 24, 2015
    ISBN9781501909795
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    Spencer Quinn

    Spencer Quinn is the bestselling author of eight Chet and Bernie mystery series, as well as the #1 New York Times bestselling Bowser and Birdie series for middle-grade readers. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife Diana—and dogs Audrey and Pearl. Keep up with him by visiting SpenceQuinn.com.

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    • 5/5
      Author Spencer Quinn packs a lot into this short story. It’s Christmas, and a small-time crook has a new gimmick: selling Christmas cheer. Bernie bites, but the party doesn’t live up to expectations. Santa doesn’t show, and his elf helper makes off with some loot. Bernie and Chet go after the duo, to make things right. After all, it’s Christmas! It’s a cute story, lighter in tone than the novels. And it’s nice to see Bernie and Chet in a holiday mood. The audio version, as usual, is well performed by Jim Frangione.
    • 4/5
      Chet and Bernie, in a Christmas mystery only Chet and Bernie could unwrap. Or get wrapped up in, or something.It's "every second Christmas" this year, Bernie's son Charlie is with them for the holiday. Bernie has really fallen down on the "getting ready for Christmas" thing, and they happen to run into an old perp Bernie helped lock up, now done with his short stint in jail. And Plumpy Napoleon has a new business, Santa 365. For just a small fee (which oddly keeps growing), he'll supply elves, gifts, a tree, everything! It'll be a blowout Christmas. Of course Bernie invites Susie, and also Charlie's friend Esmé. Then Bernie's mother, Minerva, who has dumped her latest love interest, calls from the airport for him to pick her up.It really is a grand party, but when it's time to clean up, Chet and Bernie discover that the elves were a little light-fingered. Leaving Charlie with Minerva, they hop into the Porsche to track down Plumpy, and along the way meet some other victims of his fraud and theft, including two elderly sisters who come armed.Chet the dog's naration remains as plausibly dog-like as ever in this short story, understanding what humans don't (the information carried by the scents humans can't decode nearly as well, and not understanding what humans do--the nuances of human language and social interactions.It's a lot of fun, as usual. Recommended.I bought this audiobook.
    • 2/5
      Perhaps reading a novella for the first book in a series was not the best idea, but I was not impressed. Bernie is a private detective and the story is narrated by his dog Chet. Bernie is divorced but this is his Christmas with his son Charlie. When they arrive at Bernie's house there is a red van in the driveway. It belongs to "Plumpy" Napoleon. He is recently released from prison on parole after being put there by Bernie and Chet. He is in the business of Christmas so convinces Bernie to purchase his services for a party. The party is fun, but Santa never shows. After the party Bernie is robbed so he sets out to look for Plumpy. He finds the elf from the party and finds out that he is related to some of Plumpy's victims. They look for the money that was never found, ya da ya da. Pretty simplistic plot line.

      I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
    • 3/5
      This digital Christmas short story has many of the things fans of Spencer Quinn's Chet and Bernie series love, but there are a couple of little hiccups. One is the fact that the story is actually too short and doesn't allow for Chet's narrative skills to really shine. The second problem is the larger of the two. I've never seen Bernie be so gullible. I don't know if he was trying to lull the crook into a false sense of security, or if he'd taken leave of his senses for the holidays.Despite the two things I mentioned, this is still a nice little Christmas story. I give it two tails up-- because two is the best number (according to Chet).