Erin Britton

The 12 Crimes of Christmas 2025

By Erin Britton

2 December, 2025

If Christmas is the season of goodwill, crime fiction authors clearly didn’t get the memo. Each year, mystery writers gift us something far more delicious than socks or scented candles: murders in mansions, bodies by bookstalls, deadly pantomimes and enough suspicious characters to fill Santa’s…

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Murder at Mistletoe Manor by FL Everett

By Erin Britton

11 November, 2025

FL Everett’s Murder at Mistletoe Manor is a snowbound murder mystery that manages to be genuinely festive and genuinely chilling. A closed-circle whodunnit, it pays homage to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and other Golden Age mysteries, but it does so with a…

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The Last Death of the Year by Sophie Hannah

By Erin Britton

7 November, 2025

The New Year generally begins with fireworks rather than fatalities, but the stroke of midnight signals suspicion instead of celebration in Sophie Hannah’s The Last Death of the Year. The sixth novel chronicling the return of Hercule Poirot – which by necessity takes place before…

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Death in Ambush by Susan Gilruth

By Erin Britton

4 November, 2025

This year’s festive addition to the British Library Crime Classics series is Susan Gilruth’s Death in Ambush, which was first published in 1952. It is a Christmas-set mystery, yes, but one less about seasonal cheer and more about the tensions, hypocrisies and secrets that lie…

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Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests by KJ Whittle

By Erin Britton

23 October, 2025

KJ Whittle’s debut novel, Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests, is a psychological mystery that balances the intrigue of a traditional whodunnit with the moral uncertainty of a contemporary character study. The puzzle begins when seven strangers are invited to a dinner party at…

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The Killer Question by Janice Hallett

By Erin Britton

21 October, 2025

Crime pays, especially true crime. Seeking to cash in on the macabre boom in interest in all things criminal, Dominic Eastwood approaches a contact at Netflix about making a documentary series concerning the peculiar events that befell his aunt and uncle, Sue and Mal Eastwood,…

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The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson

By Erin Britton

24 September, 2025

Christmas Eve, 1943. Bored and depressed at spending the War working in a Birmingham munitions factory, Anthony Pratt looks forward to finishing his nightshift and then travelling with wife Elva to the Tudor Close Hotel in Rottingdean, a village outside Brighton. Before World War II,…

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Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards

By Erin Britton

18 September, 2025

Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife is a twist-filled murder mystery that blends classic crime fiction tropes with a modern, interactive narrative structure. With a hefty dose of festive flair, Martin Edwards pays homage to Golden Age detective stories while simultaneously deconstructing them…

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The 12 Crimes of Christmas 2025

Murder at Mistletoe Manor by FL Everett

The Last Death of the Year by Sophie Hannah

Death in Ambush by Susan Gilruth

Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests by KJ Whittle

The Killer Question by Janice Hallett

The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson

Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards

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