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The Mysterious Death of Edna Kennard

Betty and Alice part 1

Season 1, Ep. 1

Listen to a new and exciting original work of cosy mystery by Kevin Green, serialised for the Hot Cocoa Club; the home of new original fiction and classic literature.

The mysterious death of Edna Kennard is the first in a series of cosy mysteries and fantastic fiction that the Hot Cocoa Club will be producing.

In this first episode we meet Betty and Alice, residents of Charterfield Close, who are destined to discover that the recent deaths in the Close may not all be natural.

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