Hello, everybody. Welcome to 372 pages. We'll never get back. This is Connor Lestoka.

And we are entering the cozy season with our 22nd book here.

We've re-entered the cozyverse and just in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas,

we are doing a thematic cozy mystery.

Murder, is it?

Murder in Christmas River.

I kept calling it the Christmas River murders, but it is murder in Christmas River. I kept calling it the Christmas River murders.

But it is murder in Christmas River.

It is a Christmas cozy mystery just in time for the most festive and cozy of seasons.

So Mike, I wanted to kick us off with a little cozy check here.

Post your rig. What do you got here? I've got a cup of orange spice bigelot tea. I'm wearing a sweater. It's not cable knit, but I'm, I feel like I'm at, I don't know. I do have Christmas lights outside, though. We turned those on a couple days ago, so they're... Twinkle lights? No, just the tasteful, Lauren's all about the tasteful lights. Oh, we do have, we do have a Christmas corgi that's lit up outside. We have like a, it's a target decoration. It's a light up corgi that we've kept outside all year, but it recently got a partner because the lights burnt out. Instead of sending us a $2 string of lights, they sent us a whole new corgi.

So I'm at like a four out of ten, I'd say.

Wow.

There's something wrong with you with that corgi thing.

But my coziness, I have to say before I start this cozy story that this is 100% true.

May God strike me dead. I'm not

making this up. Oh, boy. I woke up to a thick blanket of freshly fallen snow here in Minnesota.

Well, I'm one up already. Snowed all day yesterday. So the pines outside my window are coated with a thick blanket of...

It looks like icing to me.

It really does.

That's just your inner baker speaking, I guess.

So I'm checking out.

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