Christmas-Themed Mysteries for Your #TBR List

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In January, my Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries launches with Sticks and Stones and a Bag of Bones. While it’s not a Christmas story, it is a mystery series set in and around a Christmas store in the fictional little beach down of Mermaid Bay.

Here’s a sampling of Christmas-themed mysteries (in no particular order) that you may want to add to your holiday TBR list.

  • Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie

  • The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie

  • The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P. D. James

  • The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers

  • The Christmas Train by David Baldacci

  • The 19th Christmas by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

  • Merry Christmas, Alex Cross by James Patterson

  • The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen

  • Away in a Manger by Rhys Bowen

  • Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia Manansala

  • Candy Cane Murder Joanna Fluke

  • Lark! The Herald Angels Sing by Donna Andrews

  • Owl Be Home for Christmas by Donna Andrews

  • Twisted Tea Christmas by Laura Childs

  • A Gift of Bones by Carolyn Haines

  • He Sees You When You’re Sleeping by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark

  • “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle” by Arthur Conan Doyle

  • Blue Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews

  • Deck the Hounds by David Rosenfelt

  • Dachshund Through the Snow by David Rosenfelt

  • Holiday Buzz by Cleo Coyle

  • The Diva Cooks a Goose by Krista Davis

  • A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny

  • Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen by Vicki Delany

  • Dying in a Winter Wonderland by Vicki Delany

  • Six Cats a Slaying by Miranda James

  • A Merry Murder by Kate Kingsbury

  • A Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette

  • An Eggnog to Die for by Amy Pershing

  • Christmas Cocoa Murder by Carlene O’Connor

  • A Puzzle in a Pear Tree by Parnell Hall

  • Sacred and Profane by Faye Kellerman

  • Death, Taxes, and Mistletoe Mayhem by Diane Kelly

What would you add to the list?