Christmas Time and Christmas Crime

If you're in the Christmas spirit but holiday romances aren't your thing, check out these mysteries instead.

Updated November 20, 2024
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A Christmas escape
Perry, Anne
Paper Book
A Christmas return
Perry, Anne
Paper Book
A Christmas revelation
Perry, Anne
Paper Book
A Christmas message
Perry, Anne
Paper Book
A Christmas gathering
Perry, Anne
Paper Book
A Christmas legacy
Perry, Anne
Paper Book
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...
Christmas scarf murder
O'Connor, Carlene
Paper Book
They're coziest of wintertime accessories...unless, of course, they become accessories to murder! USA Today bestselling author Carlene O'Connor teams up with Maddie Day and Peggy Ehrhart for a holly jolly Christmas collection of seasonal stories, as their beloved series sleuths each...
The Christmas mystery
Patterson, James
Paper Book
James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. Two priceless paintings disappear from a Park Avenue murder scene - French detective Luc Moncrief is in for a not-so-merry Christmas.
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...
Christmas cake murder
Fluke, Joanne
Paper Book
It's Christmas many years ago, and topping young Hannah Swensen's wish list is becoming the go-to baker in Lake Eden, Minnesota. But as Hannah finds out, revisiting holiday memories can be murder . . . With her dream of opening The Cookie Jar taking shape, Hannah's life matches...
Dying for Christmas: A Novel
Cohen, Tammy
Paper Book
A novel full of twists, surprising turns, and suspense, Dying for Christmas is Tammy Cohen's most disturbing psychological thriller yet. Out Christmas shopping one December afternoon, Jessica Gould meets the charming Dominic Lacey and impulsively agrees to go...
CHRISTMAS GUEST
SWANSON, PETER.
Paper Book
This year's must-read festive chiller - The Hunting Part meets The Holiday
Crime at christmas
Kitchin, C. H. B.
Paper Book
'There we were, all gathered together for a Christmas party, and plunged suddenly into gloom.' It's Christmas at Hampstead's Beresford Lodge. A group of relatives and intimate friends gather to celebrate the festive season, but their party is rudely interrupted by a violent death. It...
Twelve Deaths of Christmas
Sharp, Jason
Paper Book
The second seasonal thriller from author Jackson Sharp, this time introducing DI Kerry Cox. It's Christmas, but Detective Inspector Kerry Cox is not celebrating. The holiday season is usually tough for Cox, but this year she's preparing to face down the ramifications of her...
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 Christmas Murder Game
Benedict, A K.
Paper Book
Christie meets Cluedo at Christmas!
A Christmas railway mystery
Marston, Edward
Paper Book
Another little Christmas murder
Morgan, Lorna Nicholl
Paper Book
A classic country house mystery republished for the first time in nearly seventy years. Perfect for fans of Murder at the Old Vicarage and Partners in Crime. When Dilys Hughes finds herself snowbound in the middle of a bleak and lonely stretch of Yorkshire, she...
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
Stevenson, Benjamin.
Paper Book
If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe... My name's Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I'd hoped,...
Jane and the twelve days of Christmas
Barron, Stephanie
Paper Book
Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy Chute family. As friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a celebratory mood. Jane,...
Murder at the Theatre Royale
Moncrieff, Ada
Paper Book
It's Christmas at London's Theatre Royale and journalist Daphne King is determined to solve an extraordinary mystery... December 1935. Director Chester Harrison's production of A Christmas Carol has had a troubled run on its tour of regional theatres. With tensions amongst the...
Trimmed with murder
Goldenbaum, Sally
Paper Book
In this holiday yarn from the USA Today bestselling author of A Finely Knit Murder, all Izzy Chambers Perry wants for Christmas is to keep her brother out of jail....   In Sea Harbor, the holidays mean cozy fires, festive carols, and soft...
Kidnapped
Patterson, James
Paper Book
Ruthless construction magnate Matteo Ginevra is spending Christmas with his family at London's luxurious Tribeca hotel. Jon Roscoe, the hotel's Head of Global Security, is watching Ginevra like a hawk. But Roscoe's attention should be focused elsewhere. When a child is abducted in the London...
Better off thread
Lee, Amanda
Paper Book
Marcy is busy helping her customers make hand-crafted ornaments at her embroidery shop, the Seven-Year Stitch. But despite the yuletide bustle, when her friend Captain Moe asks for her help, she can't refuse-especially when the favor is to play the elf to his Santa for sick children at a local...
Closing in
Thompson, Eirin
Paper Book
Caroline has a good life - a job she likes, a daughter she'd do anything for. In the midst of the Christmas rush, covering events and parties, the local journalist is looking forward to the holidays and having some quality time with the ones she loves. But Caroline's good life is not...
Mistletoe mystery, the : molly the maid mystery #3 (novella)
Prose, Nita
Paper Book
There's a 5* Christmas mystery unfolding at The Regency Grand Hotel... Full of charm and feel-good festive cheer, The Mistletoe Mystery short story is the perfect stocking-filler this Christmas! ____ It's the Christmas countdown at...

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