#187 – The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter (with Andy of Fat Dude Digs Flicks Movie Podcasts)

Tune in as the merriment continues on this podcast for the third week of December! Andy (Fat Dude Digs Flicks Movie Podcasts) is jumping back onboard to talk all about The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year, the 2024 Christmas novel by Ally Carter that blends together romance with a cozy mystery in the mansion of a famed author who goes missing. The insidiousness of gaslighting, the comfy cheese of Christmas rom-com flicks like Hot Frosty and Love Hard, and the connections that both Arthur and Andy draw between this book and The Nightmare Before Christmas (which just got covered on 2CC this month) comprise a few of the talking points for this episode.

TW: gaslighting (in the past), emotional abuse (in the past), infidelity (in the past), divorce (in the past), physical violence, gun violence, discussion of murder, medical injury, parent death (in the past), child abandonment (in the past), mention of past alcoholism, fire, and mention of past pregnancy

Spoilers start at 24:35

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Good Word:

• Andy: From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough (audiobook form) and James by Percival Everett (audiobook form)

• Arthur: Shoot ‘Em Up



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