Christmas Mysteries

Peace on earth, goodwill towards men - NOT! The halls are decked with murder and mayhem in this collection of yuletide mysteries.

Updated December 5, 2023
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Hiss & tell
Brown, Rita Mae
CD
When a series of mysterious deaths spoil the Christmas season in Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her beloved cats and dogs lend the police a helping paw in this exciting holiday mystery from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. ...
Sugar plum poisoned
McKinlay, Jenn
Paper Book
It's Christmastime, and this holiday season, things are heating up for the bakers at Fairy Tale Cupcakes, in the newest Cupcake Bakery Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay. When up-and-coming singing sensation Shelby Vaughn arrives in town for two...
Dashing through the snowbirds
Andrews, Donna
Paper Book
Dashing Through the Snowbirds is the next merry installment of Donna Andrews's New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow mystery series. Christmas in Caerphilly is wonderful! Unless you're a Canadian whose inconsiderate boss is forcing you to spend the holiday there...
Christmas scarf murder
Day, Maddie
Paper Book
Stocking stuffers like handknit scarves make the coziest of Christmas gifts-unless they're used as accessories for murder! CHRISTMAS SCARF MURDER by CARLENE O'CONNOR When grinchy thefts steal the good cheer at a local nursing home, Siobhan O...
Christmas cupcake murder
Fluke, Joanne
Paper Book
Featuring over a dozen cookie and dessert recipes from The Cookie Jar-Hannah Swensen's famous bakery, this festive new Christmas mystery from the Queen of Culinary Cozies is just the holiday treat you need this season! "Don't miss this charming mystery, which will also...
A Christmas carol murder
Redmond, Heather
Paper Book
The latest novel from Heather Redmond's acclaimed mystery series finds young Charles Dickens suspecting a miser of pushing his partner out a window, but his fiancee Kate Hogarth takes a more charitable view of the old man's innocence . . . London, December 1835- Charles...
Murder at an Irish Christmas
O'Connor, Carlene
Paper Book
The O'Sullivan clan of County Cork, Ireland, are back to investigate another case of murder--this time at Christmas! Garda Siobhán O'Sullivan's holiday plans hit a sour note when murder rearranges the Yuletide carols into unexpected eulogies... This December in...
A garland of bones
Haines, Carolyn
Paper Book
Spunky southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney tackles a string of strange accidents while celebrating the holiday season in Carolyn Haines's cozy A Garland of Bones Sarah Booth has traded in hosting this Christmas season for a road trip with her besties. Each...
Candy slain murder
Day, Maddie
Paper Book
An entertaining series perfect for fans for Joanne Fluke that highlights delicious new recipes for you to try this holiday season!  A merry Christmas mystery is the festive read you need this time of year...   "The lavish food descriptions and appended recipes are...
A Christmas resolution : a novel
Perry, Anne
Paper Book
A smitten woman is about to marry a dangerous man--unless Detective Hooper and his new wife, Celia, can prevent it--in this wickedly tangled holiday mystery from bestselling author Anne Perry. Detective John Hooper, William Monk's right-hand man at the Thames River Police, is...
The 19th Christmas
Patterson, James
Paper Book
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, the Women's Murder Club gets ready for a quiet Christmas--until a mysterious killer decides to terrorize the city.   As the holidays approach, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends in the Women's Murder Club have much...
A cup of holiday fear
Alexander, Ellie
Paper Book
It's Christmastime and everyone is heading to Torte, the most cheerful bakery in town. There's no place like home for the homicide... Ashland, Oregon, looks as pretty as a postcard this holiday season. The halls are decked, stockings hung, and eyes are all aglow--mostly thanks...
Christmas cow bells
Bryan, Mollie Cox
Paper Book
Christmas is a time for new beginnings, so after her big breakup, Brynn MacAlister takes the gouda with the bad. With her three Red Devon cows, she settles in bucolic Shenandoah Springs, eager for a new life as an organic micro-dairy farmer and cheese-maker. Then her dear cow Petunia's bellows set...
Christmas sweets
Fluke, Joanne
Paper Book
Gathered in one volume for the very first time, here are three yuletide tales of mystery, murder, and romance, featuring your favorite sleuths . . .   THE TWELVE DESSERTS OF CHRISTMAS by JOANNE FLUKE It's the perfect mix of naughty and nice...
Death of a neighborhood Scrooge
Levine, Laura
Paper Book
"I'm crazy about Laura Levine's mystery series. Her books are so outrageously funny." --Joanne Fluke   Freelance writer Jaine Austen is feeling festive about spending Christmas house-sitting at a posh Bel Air mansion, accompanied by her friend Lance and...
Premeditated peppermint
Flower, Amanda
Paper Book
For her first Yuletide in Harvest, Ohio, Bailey King, chocolatier, is recreating a cherished holiday treat: peppermint combined with molten white chocolate. But her sugar high plummets when her former boyfriend walks into the candy shop she now runs with her Amish grandmother. New York celebrity...
Lark! the herald angels sing : a Meg Langslow mystery
Andrews, Donna
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews returns with another Meg Langslow mystery written "firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie's Christmas books" (Toronto Globe and Mail). It's Christmastime in Caerphilly and Meg, full of holiday spirit, is...
Murder in her stocking
McKevett, G. A.
Paper Book
Christmas has arrived in sleepy McGill, Georgia, but holiday cheer can't keep temperamental Stella Reid from swinging a rolling pin at anyone who crosses her bad side-and this season, there are plenty. First an anonymous grinch vandalizes a celebrated nativity display. Far worse, the scandalous...
Yule log murder
Meier, Leslie
Paper Book
Fresh-baked cookies, pies, and cakes can warm even the frostiest Christmases in coastal Maine. But there's little room for holiday cheer when murder is the new seasonal tradition . . .     YULE LOG MURDER by LESLIE MEIER Lucy Stone is thrilled to...
A Christmas railway mystery
Marston, Edward
Paper Book
Murder for Christmas
Duncan, Francis
Paper Book
The first book in a classic Golden Age mystery series perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot When Mordecai Tremaine arrives at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame on Christmas Eve, he discovers that the revelries are in full swing in the sleepy village of Sherbroome-...
How the finch stole Christmas! : a Meg Langslow mystery
Andrews, Donna
Paper Book
As in her previous Christmas mysteries, Six Geese a-Slaying, Duck the Halls, and The Nightingale Before Christmas, Andrews continues to write "firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie's Christmas books" (Toronto Globe and Mail). New York Times<...
Wagging through the snow
Berenson, Laurien
Paper Book
"If you like dogs, you'll love Laurien Berenson's Melanie Travis mysteries!" --Joanne Fluke, New York Times bestselling author Melanie Travis needs a little peace from her busy life this Christmas. But the usual holiday hubbub is a joy compared to the killer...
The mistletoe murder : and other stories
James, P. D.
Paper Book
The newly appointed Sgt. Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that is "pure Agatha Christie." . .. A "pedantic, respectable, censorious" clerk's secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a murder ... A best-selling crime novelist describes the...
The Twelve dogs of Christmas
Rosenfelt, David
Paper Book
Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter usually tries to avoid taking on new cases at all costs. But this time, he's happy--eager, even--to take the case that's just come his way. Andy's long-time friend Martha "Pups" Boyer takes in stray puppies that the local dog rescue center can't handle, raises them...
The Christmas mystery : a Detective Luc Moncrief story
Patterson, James
Paper Book
Detective Luc Moncrief races through New York and Paris to track down a killer . . . and find out who is stealing the world's greatest art. In the heart of the holiday season, priceless paintings have vanished from a Park Avenue murder scene. Now, dashing French...
Deck the hallways : a fixer-upper mystery
Carlisle, Kate
Paper Book
A New York Times BestsellerA Fixer-Upper MysteryEven at Christmas, contractor Shannon Hammer is more spackle than sparkle, so she leaps at the chance to transform a grand old Victorian mansion into ten apartments for homeless families. All of Lighthouse Cove turns out to help -- including her father...
Fields where they lay : a Junior Bender mystery
Hallinan, Timothy
Paper Book
It's December 20th, and the Edgerton Mall isn't exactly full of holiday cheer, despite its two Santas. The mall is a fossil of an industry in decline; many of its stores are closed, and to make matters worse, there is a rampant shoplifting problem. Enter burglar Junior Bender, the unwilling fixer...
Rest ye murdered gentlemen
Delany, Vicki
Paper Book
In Rudolph, New York, it's Christmastime all year long. But this December, while the snow-lined streets seem merry and bright, a murder is about to ruin everyone's holiday cheer in the first Year-Round Christmas mystery. As the owner of Mrs. Claus's Treasures, Merry Wilkinson...
Christmas is murder : a Rex Graves mystery
Challinor, C. S.
Paper Book
Christmas ismurder...when you're stranded with a killer Not even a blizzard can keep Rex Graves away from Swanmere Manor, a secluded Victorian hotel in the English countryside owned by the eccentric Dahlia Smithings. But instead of Christmas cheer, the Scottish barrister finds a dead guest...
Murder for Christmas
Godfrey, Thomas
Paper Book
Mistletoe mysteries
MacLeod, Charlotte.
Paper Book
The Queen of the Whimsical Whodunit presents a collection of mystery stories centered around a Yuletide theme, written by some of the best practitioners of the cozy mystery working today.

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