Plenty of Christmas themed mysteries are coming out right now and you may have to start right now to get through them all before Christmas. Of course, you can’t really go anywhere or do anything with others so you may have the time after all.

 

Reading right now:

 Donna Andrews has written two Christmas themed mysteries this year. I already read “Owl Be Home for Christmas” and am currently reading “The Gift of the Magpie.” Both of these books are additions to the Meg Langslow series (the 26^th and the 28^th book in the series). If you are a fan of this series, you already know what to expect from Meg and her amazing and amusing family. If you want humor with your murder, you cannot go wrong with this series.

On hold right now:

Nancy Coco’s “Have Yourself a Fudgy Little Christmas” finds Allie McMurphy being directed to a dead woman in a snowbank by a note she receives and just when she was making Christmas fudge. This is the eighth book in the Candy-Coated mystery series.

In Maya Corrigan’s “Gingerdead Man,” Val Deniston’s private Christmas tea is upended when Santa is killed by a poisoned gingerbread cookie. This is the seventh book in the Five-Ingredient mystery series.

Maddie Day’s “Candy Slain Murder” reveals a skeleton in the attic of a local home that had caught on fire which starts local café owner Robbie Jordan down the road of solving the mystery in this eighth book in the Country Store mystery series.

In “Hollyberry Homicide” by Sharon Farrow, a local shop owner agrees to be in a production of “A Christmas Carol,” but finds her life in danger. This is the fifth book in the Berry Basket Mystery series.

Joanne Fluke just released a set of three short Christmas-themed mysteries under the title “Christmas Sweets.” A second anthology of three holiday themed novellas by Leslie Meier, et al. is “Christmas Card Murder.”

“Mistletoe, Moussaka, and Murder” by Tina Kashian takes place on the Jersey Shore at the annual Polar Bear Plunge. This year, however, a local caterer with a lot of enemies is found dead in the water by restaurant manager Lucy Berberian. This is the fifth book in the Kebab Kitchen Mystery series.

Anne Perry just added the 18^th book to her Christmas series and it’s called “A Christmas Resolution.”

“Murder at an Irish Christmas” by Carlene O’Connor proves that large family parties can be murder. When Siobhan O’Sullivan’s family gets together for Christmas her grandfather ends up murdered and she steps in to discover the killer. This is the sixth book in the Irish Village mystery series.

Other Mysterious Things:

There are so many more available and I have only named a few for you to get started or just to stay busy this season. In addition, Isis Crawford writes a Mystery with Recipes series in which she often incorporates holidays and her two Christmas books were “A Catered Christmas” and “A Catered Christmas Cookie Exchange.” Other authors who have written Christmas themed mysteries are Joanne Fluke, Craig Johnson (“Christmas in Absaroka County”), Leslie Meier, Maxine Paetro (“19^th Christmas”), Vicki Delany (“Dying in a Winter Wonderland”), Karen White (“The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street”), Alex Pine (“The Christmas Killer”), David Rosenfelt (“The Twelve Dogs of Christmas”), and David Baldacci (“The Christmas Train”).