Christmas Cozy Mystery Series
Cozy Mystery Series With a Christmas Theme
Christmas cozy mysteries are one of the most popular cozy mystery subgenres. Although most cozy mystery series include at least one book set during the holiday season, there are some series where every single book has a Christmas theme.
Some of these books feature a character in the Santa Claus family (like Mrs. Claus or Santa’s daughter) or a character who lives at the North Pole. Others are set in a Christmas-themed town, such as Mistletoe, Maine, or Rudolph, New York. One thing that all Christmas cozy mystery series have in common is an amateur sleuth (often with names like Holly and Merry) and plenty of Christmas cheer.
Here are a few Christmas cozy mystery series guaranteed to get you in the holiday spirit.
The Year-Round Christmas Mystery Series by Vicki Delany features an amateur sleuth named Merry Wilkinson who runs a Christmas store and solves mysteries in Rudolph, New York, where it is Christmastime all year long.
The Christmas Catastrophe Mysteries by Trixie Silvertale centers on Santa’s daughter Cindy Claus, who leaves the North Pole to open her own bakery. She is a vbig-hearted sleuth who solves mysteries with the help of an arctic fox.
The Mrs. Claus Mysteries are a fun Christmas cozy mystery series by Liz Ireland. The amateur sleuth is April Claus, who is adjusting to life in the North Pole with elves, reindeer, and snowmen, after marrying Nick, the real-life Santa Claus.
The Christmas Tree Farm Mystery Series by Jaqueline Frost is a Christmas cozy mystery series with a charming heroine named Holly White, a cat named Cindy Lou Who, and Christmas tree farm in Mistletoe, Maine.
The Very Murder Christmas Mysteries by Rosie A. Point features an amateur sleuth named Holly who solves whodunits at Christmastime when she isn’t walking super cute dogs around her hometown of Full Fork, New York.
The Candy Cane Hollow Christmas Cozy Mystery Series by Mona Marple is set in Santa’s hometown, of Candy Cane Hollow, where Christmas sparkles and amateur sleuth Holly Wood solves festive mysteries all year long.
The Cozy Christmas Series by Camille Cabrera is a collection of holiday mysteries with amateur sleuths who solve mysteries and celebrate the holidays in various settings. Each features a different main character.
The Paw-liday Craft Caper Series is a collection of Christmas cozy mysteries by multiple authors. Each one focuses on a different craft, sleuth, and setting, but all include cute pets, holiday cheer, and a murder-free mystery.
The Whiskers & Whisks Whodunit Mystery Series is an 11-book collection of cozy mysteries by multiple authors. Each one focuses on a different dessert, a different sleuth, and a different setting, but all are set during the holidays.
Winter Witches of Holiday Haven is a series of 15 paranormal cozy mystery books by five different authors. Each author wrote three holiday books in the shared universe.
The Cinnamon Mercy Claus Series by Snow Eden is a witchy holiday cozy mystery with an amateur sleuth who just happens to be Santa’s granddaughter.
The Frost & Crowe Mystery Series by Kristen Palmer is a cozy series featuring Jayne Frost and Sinclair Crowe, the Princess and Prince Consort of the North Pole.
