Are there any Christmas themed crime fiction reads? Of so, does anyone read them?
Are there any Christmas themed crime fiction reads?
Of so, does anyone read them?
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Are there any Christmas themed crime fiction reads?
Of so, does anyone read them?
Dying for Christmas is excellent! X
@Heather Tammy Cohen?
Yes – that’s the one. X
I downloaded this to read last year and didn’t get round to it, so I saved it for this year. https://www.valmcdermid.com/christmas-is-murder-the-crime-vault/
The British Library’s Crime Classics series have a few – The Christmas Card Crime and other short stories edited by Martin Edwards, The Santa Claus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay is good. Or this one
Not exactly Crime though there is an element of crime in it – the Christmas train by David baldacci.
Just read the present by d. S. Devlin short read mystery book ?
I have read the Mary Higgins Clark Christmas Collection.
Well, The Nine Tailors is, in part, a New Year themed detective story, and I don’t think that there’s that many of them. Christmas stories were ideal for the Golden Age, though, as it was a surefire way of getting all your suspects in one spot, at a time of raised emotions, with the opportunity of getting them cut off by the weather.
The Mistletoe Murder and other stories. PD James is excellent. I read them last Christmas Eve.
A Fatal Grace, from the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny takes place in the run up to Christmas. I love this series, including this part.
I loved Dying for Christmas by Tammy Cohen.
You should write one!
@Jeff I struggle to write a shopping list! ?
Didn’t Agatha Christie write a Christmas novel? X
There’s a Poirot set at a Christmas house party. Can’t remember the title offhand, but it has an atypical denouement, rather more like a Father Brown.
Hercules Poirot’s Christmas and the Mystery of the Christmas Pudding!
It’s the first one I’m thinking of
I really enjoyed this one
I was just about to recommend this one
Thanks for the recommendation. I like the sound of this.
The Deaths of December by @Susi
@Anne great minds lol
Not exactly Christmas but has an advent calendar in it
The Deaths Of December by Susi Holliday
While I was checking out a recommendation from this thread, something else cropped up with is on pre-order now, for release on 1 December. It has a Christmas element and the setting is one I am really into at the moment.
@Fiona Ooh, this sounds fab. I like the idea that you read it like an advent calendar (1 section each day) a bit like The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaardar
Here is my selection for this Christmas. Two collections by PD James, two various authors collections and Cold Christmas by Alastair Gunn. I read The Advent Killer by the same author last year and that was good.
@Alyson ooh I’ll have to try the other PD James one. I read Mistletoe Murder last year. It’s great.
@Alison I’ve stock-piled these during the year when I’ve seen them. Short stories are great for when you don’t have so much reading time x
@Alyson love short stories for Christmas reading. I’ll have to try the other two as well.
I’ve just seen another one advertised, A Very Murderous Christmas – looks like the other two.:-)
I have a Christmas novella in my Justice series. 🙂 xx
@Mel I’ve got that one x
Yay, good to hear. 🙂 xx
The Advent Killer by Alistair Gunn. The Long Shadow by Celia Fremlin
Murder at the old vicarage, a Christmas mystery. Jill McGowan. Read this last year along with many others. Tbh I searched for Christmas in Amazon and had a reading fest last year ?
This one I enjoyed.
Portrait of a murderer, a Christmas crime story by Anne Meredith
Merry Christmas Alex Cross
twelve days of Christmas,
I’ve read a few of Anne Perry’s Christmas novellas, and a few series entries.
I have a Xmas themed story in a collection.
Christmas at Hissing Sid’s toy store.
Maigret Christmas stories .
the Deaths of December – @Susi