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Secret Santa

By: Matthew Costello, Neil Richards
Narrated by: Neil Dudgeon
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Summary

Bill Vokes has played Santa at the children's Christmas show for years. But with the show just hours away, he vanishes with no explanation. The whole village is baffled. Did something bad happen to loveable Bill, upstanding citizen, churchgoer, life and soul of the party and the holiday season? Jack and Sarah are on the case - and soon discover there are secrets about this Santa that no one could have imagined...

Cherringham is a serial novel à la Charles Dickens, with a new audio episode released every two weeks. Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, the detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Thrilling and deadly - but with a spot of tea - it's like Rosamunde Pilcher meets Inspector Barnaby. Each of the self-contained episodes is a quick listen for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor, or when curling up with a hot cuppa.

For fans of Agatha Christie's "Miss Marple" series, Lilian Jackson Braun's "The Cat Who" series, Caroline Graham's "Midsomer Murders", and the American TV series "Murder She Wrote", starring Angela Lansbury.

Co-authors Neil Richards (based in the UK) and Matthew Costello (based in the US), have been writing together since the mid 90's, creating content and working on projects for the BBC, Disney Channel, Sony, ABC, Eidos, and Nintendo to name but a few. Their transatlantic collaboration has underpinned scores of TV drama scripts, computer games, radio shows, and - most recently - the successful crime fiction series Cherringham.

The narrator of the audiobook, Neil Dudgeon, has been in many British television programmes including the roles of "DCI John Barnaby" in "Midsomer Murders" and "Jim Riley" in "The Life of Riley". He is also known for his film roles in "The Nativity", "Sorted" and "Son of Rambow". In 2012, Dudgeon starred as "Norman Birkett" on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play series written by Caroline and David Stafford.
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a wonderful listen

narration perfect, story good fun and thoroughly engaging. if I could give it more stars I would. Definitely recommend the magical combination of authors and narrator.

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Good mini crime drama

Very Well narrated and an intriguing short story for a Christmas crime novel, very enjoyable

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Warm, Amusing, Believable and Easy Listening

As ever Neil Dudgeon does the story proud. Not clichéd, but nuanced. Enjoyable and lovely to sleep with!

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Loved it!

A really cosy mystery, love these books, great for listening to any time any where.

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A cosy gem

So glad to have this addition to my personal library. All the ingredients for the perfect Christmas mystery. I look forward to listening to more from this series.

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Pleasant listen

At times I wasn’t sure I wasn’t listening to a Midsummer murder because of the narrator! No seriously a very pleasant listen and I will now have to find the start of this series

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Christmas Curiosity....

Good, attention catching story. A perfect Christmas themed thriller for ppl on the go, travelling or who do not have a lot of time.......Me, I had to keep rewinding because I kept falling asleep on the beach, but didn't want to miss anything, lol.

Makes me curious to the other stories in the series.

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Where’s Santa Gone ??

Neat little novella which had an entertaining story line and read brilliantly. As one of a series it kept its credibility. Worth a read / listen .

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highly recommended!

very enjoyable Xmas story. Neil dudgeons narration was spot on...I actually felt I was in the village!

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Do that I missed please good I sleep very ever who daer wright again your war

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