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
Paper Book
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. "As feline...
Murder most royal
Bennett, S. J.
Paper Book
"One imagines Christmas at the royal family's country house at Sandringham Estate bustling with drama, but Bennett's version raises the stakes... Bennett charmingly portrays relationships between royal family members." -- Washington Post Evidence that an aristocrat has gone missing-...
Dashing through the snowbirds : a Meg Langslow mystery
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...
A Christmas deliverance : a novel
Perry, Anne
Paper Book
A courageous doctor and his apprentice fight to save London's poor--and discover that the hearts of men can be colder than a winter chill--in this gripping holiday mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. "Perry's Victorian-era holiday mysteries [are]...
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...
Twisted tea Christmas
Childs, Laura
Paper Book
Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier, Drayton Conneley, are catering a Victorian Christmas party for Drucilla Heyward, one of the wealthiest women in town. Drucilla is so pleased with the party that she reveals her secret plan to Theodosia - she has brought the cream of Charleston society...
God rest ye, royal gentlemen
Bowen, Rhys
Paper Book
Georgie is excited for her first Christmas as a married woman in her lovely new home. She suggests to her dashing husband, Darcy, that they have a little house party, but when Darcy receives a letter from his aunt Ermintrude, there is an abrupt change in plans and they find themselves invited to...
Best in snow
Rosenfelt, David
Paper Book
A Christmas legacy : a novel
Perry, Anne
Paper Book
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt's former maid takes a new job as Christmas approaches--but not everyone in the household may survive the holidays in this tension-filled novel from bestselling author Anne Perry. "Perry's Victorian-era holiday mysteries [are] an annual treat."--The...
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...
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...
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...
Murder for Christmas
Duncan, Francis.
Digital file
A classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder. Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve...
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<...
The mistletoe murder : and other stories
James, P. D.
Paper Book
Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time--swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful "entertainment." The newly appointed Sgt....

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