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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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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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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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Murder at Maybridge Castle by Ada Moncrieff

By Erin Britton

18 December, 2023

Daphne King, trailblazing crime reporter and fledgling amateur sleuth, returns to tackle more Christmas chaos in Ada Moncrieff’s Murder at Maybridge Castle. It’s December 1936 and Charles Howton, black sheep of playwright Veronica Howton’s family, has invited Daphne and Veronica to spend a pre-Christmas weekend…

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Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Seasonal Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards

By Erin Britton

11 December, 2023

Step into a world where tinsel and crime intertwine as the festive season takes a mysterious and sometimes murderous turn in Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Seasonal Mysteries. The fifth Christmassy collection from Martin Edwards and the British Library, it includes 15 short crime…

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Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas by Vicki Delany

By Erin Britton

7 November, 2023

Vicki Delany’s Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas offers a welcome return to the charmingly festive yet murder-stricken town of Rudolph, New York, where Christmas spirit runs high and malice simmers beneath the surface. The sixth instalment in the Year-Round Christmas Mystery series, it’s a…

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The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett

By Erin Britton

25 October, 2023

It’s early December 2022 and the Fairway Players are rehearsing for their latest command performance: a one-night-only production of Jack and the Beanstalk in aid of the local church’s roof repair fund. The parts have been cast, the props procured and the set staged, and…

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Murder at Mistletoe Manor by FL Everett

Death in Ambush by Susan Gilruth

The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson

Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards

Murder at Maybridge Castle by Ada Moncrieff

Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Seasonal Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards

Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas by Vicki Delany

The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett

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