Episode 87 – The Christmas Caramel Murder
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2017
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
‘Tis the season…for murder. Mystery enthusiast Kelsey joined us to discuss the Christmas Caramel Murder by Joanne Fluke, a cozy mystery starring amateur detective/baker Hannah Swensen. It’s a heartwarming story featuring one murder and a lot of recipes. Plus, the casual introduction of our new least favorite cocktail: hot lemonade! Happy holidays from Worst Bestsellers! We really hope you don’t get murdered! PS Sorry some of us got so drunk on hot lemonade.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Christmas Caramels and Other Murder Foods (our attempts at cooking these recipes)
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #26 (the zine issue)
Murder on the Menu: A Feast of Cozy Food Mysteries
Candy pairing: Kait says strawberry hard candies, Kelsey says Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites, Renata says hot lemonade.
Coming up next: Bests & Worsts of 2017 (Part 1, Children’s & YA)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about hot lemonade so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.4 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.6 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:19.6 | And for this episode, we read The Christmas Caramel Murder by Joanne Fluk. |
| 0:25.4 | Joining us to discuss this Hannah Swenson recipe mystery is Kelsey, food and mystery enthusiast. |
| 0:32.5 | Hey. |
| 0:33.3 | Hey, Kelsey. |
| 0:35.2 | You can't wave on a podcast, Kelsey. You can't wave on a podcast, Kelsey. |
| 0:45.3 | I've never said hi. It's too weird. |
| 0:47.5 | Just say hi again. |
| 0:48.3 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:50.0 | Welcome to doing a podcast where it feels awkward because you're talking to a microphone of people that you're not actually looking at. |
| 0:57.8 | I mean, we all are staring straight ahead in a wall instead of just like looking at each other and sitting around. |
| 1:03.7 | We don't have a real studio, Kelsey. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm not trying to. I'm just saying I'm stirring a wall. |
| 1:08.2 | You can't tell the people at home that. |
| 1:29.3 | I don't even know if we should start over or just keep this. Let's just go with it. Let's roll with it. It's the holidays. I trust Becca to make us not sound like idiots. No, Becca's straight. I'm going to keep this in. Yeah. You know, it's the holidays. Let's, you know, we're pretending this is like our office holiday party, but everyone's just a little drunk and a little weird. |
| 1:32.4 | I mean, we have had a lot of hot lemonade. |
| 1:34.0 | Well, we've had some hot lemonade. |
| 1:35.5 | It's hard to drink, but it's not very good. |
| 1:39.8 | But it does have rum in it, and I have been drinking it. |
| 1:43.5 | It does taste a little like melted cough drop. |
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