Have Yourself a Merry Little Mystery: 12 Cozy Mysteries Fit For the Holidays

by Rosemarie Ross

When the assistant for the American Baking Battle’s holiday special is murdered, and one of her co-workers is accused of the crime, chef Courtney Archer whips up a list of suspects to blow the lid of the truth. 

by Mia P. Manansala

With her trouble-magnet cousin returning to Shady Palms for Christmas, café owner Lila Macapagal isn’t surprised when she has to clear his name after being accused of murder. He may be a jerk, but he’s still family. And there’s no way her flesh and blood could actually be a murderer...right?

by Emily Brightwell

When Inspector Witherspoon is assigned a complicated murder case a week before Christmas, Mrs. Jeffries and the household must put on their sleuthing caps and unwrap the clues to catch a killer on Santa’s naughty list.

by Gigi Pandian

Tempest Raj is looking forward to a renewed family tradition: celebrating Christmas in Scotland. But in the city’s snow-covered, historic Old Town, a recent museum art heist has made chilling headlines. No one can figure out how the thief pulled off the crime. When a family friend asks for help, Tempest agrees to look into the impossible theft—before the festive city’s holiday mood darkens and the Christmas lights fade for good.

by Hannah Hendy

Margery and her wife Clementine are determined to stay out of the way of the Christmas concert planning that has gripped the rest of the staff at Summerview school. However, they are caught in the crossfire when the stage lights collapse at the first practice killing the music teacher. The head of the drama department is the prime suspect and is desperate for the Dinner Lady Detectives to clear her name. 

by Donna DiRico

Astoria, Queens, is decorated within an inch of its life for the Christmas season, and amateur sleuth Mia Carina is juggling her job at the Belle View catering hall when a body turns up in a Christmas-themed lawn display and she must find out who’s the guilty party. 

by Allie Pleiter

The holiday season looks merry and bright for Libby and her friends at Y.A.R.N. until her ex-husband, Sterling, turns up in town…and then turns up dead. If Libby can’t stitch up a solution to the case, she may be trading in her knitting needles for a set of handcuffs.

by Carolyn Haines

When a feud erupts between two authors at a Mississippi library’s tree decorating contest, Sarah Booth and Tinkie investigate after one of them goes missing.

by Carlene O'Connor, Maddie Day, and Peggy Ehrhart

A collection of holiday stories including the tales of a thief who steals from an Irish nursing home, a local restaurant diner who dies while knitting a scarf, and a New Jersey woman strangled during a holiday tree lighting celebration.
 

by Sally Goldenbaum

The Christmas trees are up, the Seaside Knitters are crafting warm and beautiful gifts for the holidays, and friends and families are gathering in picturesque Sea Harbor, Massachusetts. Then...a mysterious disappearance and someone found dead beneath the mistletoe. Izzy, Birdie, Nell, and Cass must uncover the pattern to these mysteries to remove suspicion from those they love, bring a murderer to justice.

After forcing employees to work through the holidays in Wales, an inconsiderate boss turns up murdered with too many possible suspects.

by Maddie Day

 'Tis the day after Christmas and Mac has last-minute wedding planning to do. But all pre-wedding jitters fade into the background when she and her fiance begin a cottage renovation project and open up a wall to find a skeleton. As Mac delves into the decades-old mystery she discovers a story of star-crossed lovers and feuding families worthy of the bard himself. Yet this tale has a modern-day villain still lurking in Mac's quaint seaside town, ready to make this a murderous New Year's Eve...