Christmas murder mystery books

The classic I will actually date

Hercule Poirot's Christmas was published in 1938. US titles have included Murder for Christmas and A Holiday for Murder. It is Poirot novel number 20 in the series numbering on the record. Goodreads has a large public rating count for it. I am not pasting the average into a badge, because a badge looks like this site's verdict. The author is Agatha Christie. Other Christie books get mentioned in Christmas searches. I am not promoting a rumor of a new Christie film. As of 13 Nov 2026 I did not have a database title I would add for a 2025 or 2026 Christie screen project, so that rumor stays off the film table as well.

Later novels, with the year the record gave

• The Christmas Murder Game, Alexandra Benedict, 2021.
• The Christmas Jigsaw Murders, Alexandra Benedict. The year field was present in the working record as a recent Benedict novel. If you need the exact copyright line, use the publisher page rather than this sentence. I would rather you check the book in your hand than trust a year I am not pinning in the table.
• The Christmas Appeal, Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret, The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year, Murder on the Christmas Express, The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories, Deck the Halls, and Sugar Cookie Murder are rows on the main table because a shelf or a database listed them. Several of those rows have a single source and an empty page count. Read the status column before you cite them.

The 1942 book that is not a cozy bakery

Call a Hearse is fair-play detection in the snow, not a cupcake shop. Gaarder is an advent pilgrimage, not a murder investigation. If you would rather host than read, the paper kits are under printables.