Ho Ho Homicidal Maniac

Murder and Mistletoe, Book 2

By: K.A. Merikan

Narrated by: Simon Dornet, Nick J. Russo

"I love Christmas. So every year, I kill someone. As a treat."

Nico

Have you ever fallen in love with a man as he was pointing his gun at you? Well, I have. Tiny problem? I'm in the middle of my murderous Christmas tradition, and he's a witness.

But it's not his fault I got too excited and didn't check if I was alone. I can't just kill him because of my own blunder. Not when he has such dreamy green eyes filled with fear and pent-up rage.

What I can do is take him with me for safekeeping while I work out how to make him understand that while my methods are cruel, my intentions are pure.

Or how to make him fall for me.

Whichever is first.

Blake

My eighteenth birthday was supposed to be the happiest day of my sheltered life. Finally, I would gain independence and inherit half my family fortune. Instead, I ended up kidnapped.

I was about to get carved into pieces when…a Christmas miracle in the form of a beefy homicidal maniac saved me.

Only now I'm trapped in his basement and getting love bombed by a psycho golden retriever. He eats turkey sandwiches for every breakfast, enjoys making festive ornaments out of human teeth, and lets his violent urges shine like a Christmas tree.

I shouldn't find him hot. I shouldn't want to indulge his murderous tendencies. And I definitely shouldn't want him to be my first.

But I'm being hunted and might just need a monster to keep me safe.

(And he does actually make really good fruitcake.)

Ho Ho Homicidal Maniac is a standalone M/M dark romance where a Christmas-obsessed serial killer falls for a poor little rich boy who also happens to be his favorite true crime podcaster. For mature listeners.

©2024 K.A. Merikan (P)2025 Podium Audio

Good Addition to the Murder and Mistletoe Series

I enjoyed Ho Ho Homicidal Maniac and Nico and Blake's story a lot!

Nico is such a terrific and contradictory character! I found it a little more difficult to relate to Blake, which is mostly due to his age.

Nick and Simon, the narrators did another terrific job, bringing the characters and their emotions to life for the listener.

I look forward to the installment in this series!

i knew i would love it

i knew this book was right up my alley for this Christmas but i was still surprised by the well structured story and jokes that made me smile.
having a hard time finding a negative thing to say about it.

Wonderful story!

I loved this story so much and am glad that I listened to it. Blake was a rich person who loved mysteries and figuring out the why and the who and how it was done. He didn’t really like Christmas but decided to go to a gay bar and wore an elf costume, at that bar he was drugged and taken by an evil man who wanted to kill him but was saved by Nico. Nico is an interesting sole who has a habit of killing bad people, it’s something that his grandfather did and now it’s all Nico he is known as “The Christmas Killer”. He saved Blake but only because he saw his face he could either kill him or take him against his will that is where this whole adventure began now they are together own and run the Winter Emporium and live upstairs and have a murder basement under it. I really like this idea for a Christmas story and can’t wait to see what comes next. The narrators did a great job and brought the whole thing to life.

how dare you!! 😭

I can't believe I just ugly cried towards the end of this awesome story. I want my own Nic. he was the cutest psycho I've ever read. I still don't know what he saw in Blake. I detested his sorry ass so much. oh well. loved the story. I laughed and raged and of course ugly cried. so sad it was a short listen. narrators did an amazing job 😍

Another masterpiece

Omg this book was so adorable ❤️ loved the darker elements, as always, and the two of them are so cute I can't even. Easy 5 stars.