{"id":15022,"date":"2013-12-08T12:08:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T18:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=15022"},"modified":"2014-01-31T15:49:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T21:49:48","slug":"christmas-mystery-book-list-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/christmas-mystery-book-list-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Mystery Book List Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I just remembered that it’s time for me to ask you all about your favorite Christmas mysteries. The last time I did this was at Thanksgiving time (Favorite Thanksgiving Mysteries<\/a>). We also made up a list of our Favorite Halloween Mysteries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As you can see from all of the pages of Christmas Mystery Books<\/strong><\/a>, the Christmas mystery book theme is a really popular one. Many of my favorite authors have at least one mystery book in their series that takes place during the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n

I have enjoyed many<\/em> Christmas mysteries, especially since living down here in San Antonio. Because the weather isn’t really “Christmas-y”, I rely on my authors to bring me the snow and cold associated with this time of year. I have to admit that I prefer reading mysteries that take place in cold climates at this time of year, rather than the Christmas in the tropics types of mysteries.<\/p>\n

That’s not to say that I haven’t enjoyed Christmas mysteries that take place in weather similar to ours here in San Antonio. An example of this is Margaret Grace’s Mayhem in Miniature<\/em>. Of course since Margaret Grace is one of my very favorite authors that’s no surprise. Luckily, as Camille Minichino she wrote The Helium Murder<\/em>, which is set during Christmas in a very cold Massachusetts. That mystery did indeed give me my preferred snowy setting. Another Christmas mystery that just popped into my head is Charlotte MacLeod’s Rest You Merry<\/em>. Who doesn’t love that Christmas mystery? My list of Christmas mystery favorites goes on an on, and on some more!<\/p>\n

If you know of any Christmas theme mysteries that you think should definitely be on this Christmas mysteries recommendations<\/strong>\u00a0list, please post a comment. And please tell us why you like it so much. Thank you!<\/p>\n

Christmas Mystery Book Recommendations:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Donna Andrews<\/a>: Duck the Halls<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Marian Babson<\/a>:\u00a0The Twelve Deaths of Christmas<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Jennie Bentley<\/a> (aka Jenna Bennett & Bente Gallagher):\u00a0Home for the Homicide<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Carola Dunn<\/a>: Death at Wentwater Court<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Carola Dunn<\/a>: Mistletoe and Murder<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Shelley Freydont<\/a>: Silent Knife<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Jane Haddam<\/a>:\u00a0Not A Creature Was Stirring<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Lee Harris<\/a>: The Christmas Night Murder<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Lee Harris<\/a>: The New Year\u2019s Eve Murder<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Charlotte MacLeod<\/a>\u00a0(aka Alisa Craig): Rest Ye Merry<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

D.R. Meredith<\/a>:\u00a0Murder by Sacrilege<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Valerie Wolzien<\/a>: We Wish You a Merry Murder<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Valerie Wolzien<\/a>: ‘Tis the Season to be Murdered<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just remembered that it’s time for me to ask you all about your favorite Christmas mysteries. The last time I did this was at Thanksgiving time (Favorite Thanksgiving Mysteries). We also made up a list of our Favorite Halloween Mysteries. As you can see from all of the pages of Christmas Mystery Books, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9,13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-authors","7":"category-books","8":"category-cozy-mystery-books-by-theme","9":"category-holiday-mystery-books","10":"entry","11":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-3Ui","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15022"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15048,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions\/15048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}