Dying for Christmas cover art

Dying for Christmas

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Dying for Christmas

By: Tammy Cohen
Narrated by: Emma Gregory
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £14.99

Buy Now for £14.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

I am missing. Held captive by a blue-eyed stranger.

To mark the 12 days of Christmas, he gives me a gift every day, each more horrible than the last. The 12th day is getting closer. After that, there'll be no more Christmas cheer for me. No mince pies, no carols. No way out....

But I have a secret. No-one has guessed it. Will you?

©2014 Tammy Cohen (P)2014 W F Howes Ltd Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Winter Christmas

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Promise Me cover art
The Housemaid cover art
The Perfect Husband cover art
The Girlfriend cover art
The Trophy Wife cover art
Black Heart cover art
The Broken Ones cover art
The Good Samaritan cover art
Lie to Me cover art
From the Cradle cover art
One for Sorrow cover art
The Wife Next Door cover art
Those Who Lie cover art
The Old You cover art
The Party at Number 12 cover art
The Proposal cover art

Critic reviews

"Acutely observed, wickedly funny and deftly plotted, with a satisfyingly smart twist at the end." ( Mail on Sunday)
All stars
Most relevant  
Great story, unexpected turns and the narration is great which makes such a difference to the listening experience. Reccomend

Excellent

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great story, full of twists and turns, great performance. I would definitely recommend this book.

Loved it.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I was hooked from the first sentences. “Chances are by the time you read this I’ll be dead. Three interesting things about me. Well, I’m twenty-nine years old, I’m phobic about buttons. Oh yes, and I’m dying.”

Jessica Gold meets a handsome stranger, Dominic Lacey, in a department store café on Christmas Eve and goes home with him. He then keeps her prisoner, subjecting her to his twisted, depraved games and giving her a gift every day for the 12 days of Christmas.

As the story progresses we learn more about the characters. Jessica is, in the words of her brothers, ‘weird’, but as the story progresses we learn that there’s more to her than meets the eye. She is in a long term relationship with Shaun but the relationship is not a happy one. Dominic is evil, manipulative and completely without remorse or mercy, and I admit he scared me to death! But we do learn about his childhood and start to understand how he became the man he is. Then there is the female detective, Kim, who is ambitious and wants to progress in her career and knows that to do this she has to be twice as good as her male colleague. Her husband gives her an ultimatum – her job or him and the kids. It would be great to see Kim in more books to see how her character progresses.

The plot is clever and complex, and the storyline is quite horrific but I didn’t want to stop reading to find out if Jessica would manage to escape. But then just as I thought I knew how the story would end there is Part 2….. and WOW everything is turned on it’s head and everything I thought I knew was suddenly wrong. There is twist after twist. I did guess one or two of them, but this didn’t detract from my enjoyment of the book. Despite its very dark subject matter there are some wickedly funny one-liners which had me laughing out loud.

And then there’s the ending. WTF???

If you like your Christmas fiction dark then this is the book for you!

Dark, Disturbing and very Twisty

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Good story but dragged out way too much at the end. Could have been cut down by at least two hours in the second half.

Good character building

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Really enjoyed this as weird as it was, but I couldn’t stop listening! I had to know what was going to happen next😱😰fab narrator 💯and I will look out for more from this author!😊👍🏽 I would say this is not for the faint hearted, its sick and creepy but there’s something really good about it🤔😂thanks audible you are the best!♥️💯xxx

Great weird story!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The twists and turns are excellent in this. I was really surprised at different points in the story. Some fascinating development of the characters. Would definitely recommend.
Loving Audible!

An excellent read

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Brilliant author. She’s new to me, I stumbled across a physical book in our village library and was hooked.

The narration suited the story. I have over 400 books in my audible library. Some of them high I’ve abandoned because of the narration but this wasn’t one of them.

Other authors I like are Charlie Gallagher, John Marrs ( except the Marriage Lie which gave me the creeps !) I used to listen to Halen Coben and such. I’ve never seen any of the Netflix or films any of the books have been made into.

I’d also been going through a period of meweeeeehhhh don’t like that book don’t fancy that book and this has reigned my audible tastebuds.

I also like Sarah Morgan, Cathy Bramley and BBC Archers.

Ok. So there’s my opinion. :)

Spot on narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
...except for the narrator's voice. Emily Gregory's voice would be brilliant in a sleep app or a classic english drama - but not for a thriller! It is very hard to find this book gripping when the voice is soooo soothing. So it brought a 5 star thriller to a (generous) 3 star (in my opinion). I would definitely chose another of Tammy Cohen's books but with a different narrator.

Would have been a great book....

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This was a fairly dull murder mystery with a bizarre but slow plot. The christmas gimmick seemed unnecessary and I never really sympathised with any of the characters. The narration was fine.

Pretty painful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
At first I really enjoyed this book couldn't stop listening , but the ending was too rushed and was left having to figure out what happened next which I don't like, I only downloaded it as I love Emma Gregory she brings stories to life and is a fantastic narrator! It was a good story and worth a listen lots of twists and turns but was just left feeling disappointed with the ending

Love the narrator but the ending was disappointing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.