If you have extra time to read this Christmas, there are lots of new mysteries that take place or revolve around Christmas available to help you fill up that time.

Reading right now:

Wes Markin’s sixth book in his DCI Michael Yorke series is “Christmas with the Conduit.” This book starts out on Christmas day and is a standard police procedural whereas most of the books mentioned here are cozies.

On hold right now:

Ava Zuma’s fifth book in the Sunshine Cove Cozy mystery series is “Christmas Carols and Lipstick Perils.”

Donna Muse has a novella series called Mrs. Pomolo Investigates and her 15^th and 16^th books in the series are “Merry Christmas & Murder” and “Christmas Trees & Trickery.”

“A Corpse for Christmas” is the fifth book in the Izzy Palmer mystery series by Benedict Brown. This is a pretty funny series and Izzy is a Private Investigator.

Jenna St. James presents the eighth book in her Sullivan Sisters mystery series called “Christmas Alley Murder.”

Vicki Delany is bringing her Year Round Christmas mystery series to an end with her fifth and final book in the series called “Dying in a Winter Wonderland.”

The 26^th book in Joanne Fluke’s Hannah Swensen series is the “Christmas Cupcake Murder.”

Anne Perry adds “A Christmas Resolution” to her Christmas series. This is the 18^th book in this historical series.

Carlene O’Connor’s sixth book in the Irish Village mystery series is “Murder at an Irish Christmas.”

Amy Boyles “Witcher Upper Christmas” is her fourth book in the Magical Renovation Mystery. This book is a paranormal mystery where getting ready for Christmas involves solving a murder.

Other Mysterious Things:

There are any number of omnibus collections of Christmas mysteries and/or short story collections available this year. Addison Moore and Bellamy Bloom have “A Christmas to Dismember” which is an omnibus collection of Country Cottage mysteries. Another omnibus collection is “Christmas Crackers” by Christine Bernard, et al. “Christmas Cookie Cozies” is a collection of mysteries by Gretchen Allen, et al. Peggy Ehrhart, et al presents a Christmas omnibus called “Christmas Card Murder.” “Afraid of the Christmas Lights” is a new collection by Mark Billingham, Sophie Hannah and Val McDermid.

Others: