Mistletoe Murders 4 by Ken Cuperus Narrator: Cobie Smulders, Raymond Ablack, full cast
Series: Mistletoe Murders #4
Published by Audible Originals on November 6, 2025
Source: Audible Plus
Genres: Mystery
Length: 3 hrs 32 mins
Format: Audiobook
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The much-anticipated return of the hit Audible Original Mistletoe Murders series, featuring Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother) reprising her role as cozy crimefighter and year-round Christmas store owner Emily Lane in Mistletoe Murders 4.
Coming from Canadian Screen Award winner Ken Cuperus, with Ginny & Georgia’s Raymond Ablack plus a stellar ensemble cast featuring Kylee Evans (The Good Witch) and Jean Yoon (Kim’s Convenience), this new season of the Audible Original will help you get in the festive spirit this holiday season.
When Emily Lane isn’t busy running her charming Christmas-themed store ‘’Under the Mistletoe,‘’ located in the quaint tourist town of Fletcher’s Grove, she finds herself compelled to investigate not-so-quaint local murders. This season finds Emily returning to Fletcher’s Grove after a long absence and reacquainting herself with the town, her ex, Sam, Sam’s new girlfriend, and of course, murder. But it’s not so easy to slip back into the life she left a year ago—especially when another person from Emily’s past arrives in town under mysterious circumstances. Is it a coincidence, or is someone pulling the strings to target Emily—and if so, what’s their endgame?
The Mistletoe Murders Audible Original series inspired the hit Hallmark adaptation of the same name starring Sarah Drew and Peter Mooney, currently in its second season.
Emily is back in town, and of course back to solving murders. She’s been gone a year and some things have changed – Sam has a new girlfriend, Violet is at college, and some things haven’t- like the diner’s black coffee. Each audiobook has three separate novellas and each one is fun and has a bit of suspense. The mysteries are (mostly)self-contained but there is an over-arching storyline that deals with Emily’s past. We of course end on a cliff-hanger, which I do find annoying. I will listen to the next one – I don’t need a cliff-hanger to guarantee it. Actually, by the time next December rolls around, I’ll probably need reminded what was going on anyway.
About Ken Cuperus
Ken Cuperus (born 1972) is a Canadian television writer and producer, who is a partner with his wife Michelle Melanson in the children’s television production firm Headspinner Productions. He is most noted as a writer of the children’s television series Happy House of Frightenstein, for which he and writing partner Sandy Jobin-Bevans won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in an Animated Program or Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 and Best Writing in a Preschool Program or Series at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.
Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, he began his career as a member of the sketch comedy troupe Brave New Weasels with Jobin-Bevans, Ron Moore and Matt Kippen, as well as writing for the television series Freaky Stories and the short film Good Monday, for which he received a Canadian Comedy Award nomination for Best Writing in a Film at the 2nd Canadian Comedy Awards in 2001.
He was subsequently a writer for television series such as Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse, Medabots, John Callahan’s Quads!, George Shrinks, The Berenstain Bears, Moville Mysteries, The Doodlebops, Carl², Stargate: Atlantis and Total Drama before creating the television series The Stanley Dynamic in 2015.
Cuperus and Melanson launched Headspinner in 2018. The company’s productions have included Happy House of Frightenstein, Denis and Me and Aunty B’s House. Ken is also one of the head writers for Mistletoe Murders on the Hallmark Channel.
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