2025 Cozy Holiday Gift Guide
Christmas Gift Ideas Under $25 for Cozy Mystery Lovers
This 2025 Cozy Holiday Gift Guide includes special deals, promotions, and gift ideas for cozy mystery lovers. You’ll find digital gifts, Christmas cozy mysteries, new-release books, puzzle books, jigsaw puzzles, cozy craft-and-book pairings, magazine subscriptions, and reading accessories. Each gift is $25 or less!
Digital Holiday Gifts
A Bookshop.org Gift Card is the perfect present for gift-givers and readers who want to support independent bookstores. The digital gift card can be redeemed for physical books on Bookshop.org. Gift cards never expire. Every purchase financially supports independent bookstores. Learn how bookstores benefit from Bookshop.org purchases.
From now until December 16, 2025, you can get an Audible Subscription for just $0.99 per month for the first three months (cancel anytime). The subscription gives you one book from the Audible catalog to keep. You can also listen to thousands of additional titles every month from the growing collection of podcasts, audiobooks, and Audible Originals.
New Release Books
If you’re in the market for a brand new holiday book release, check out this list of 15 Must-Read Christmas Cozy Mysteries. You’ll find historical mysteries, paranormal mysteries, small-town Christmas mysteries, bookish mysteries, and cozies set in Christmas towns! All of the books on the list are new for 2025.
Nowhere To Go But Up by pop culture writer Lily E. Hirsch explores Angela Lansbury’s most memorable roles as well as her approach to helping other people, trying new things, tuning out naysayers, judging with empathy, processing death, aging, navigating motherhood, and much more.
Mystery Books and Magazines
Multiple magazines cater to mystery lovers. None of them focus on cozy mysteries exclusively, but you can find cozy stories and traditional mysteries in all of them. You can even find short stories written by bestselling cozy mystery authors. A few magazines to try include:
Black Cat Weekly (Digital)
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (Print or Digital)
The Strand Magazine (Print)
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (Print or Digital)
The Agatha Award, named after the legendary Agatha Christie, is awarded each year to honor the best mystery books. Some of the winners from 2025 include:
TO SLIP THE BONDS OF EARTH Written by Amanda Flower (Best Historical Novel)
A MIDNIGHT PUZZLE Written by Gigi Pandian (Best Contemporary Novel)
WRITING THE COZY MYSTERY: AUTHORS’ PERSPECTIVES ON THEIR CRAFT Edited by Phyllis M. Betz (Best Non-Fiction)
Cozy Puzzle Books
MURDER AMONG THE STACKS by Rosie A. Point takes cozy mysteries and word search puzzles to the next level with an interactive whodunit that invites you to solve the case as you uncover clues. You’ll find a new word search puzzle at the end of each chapter!
MERRY MURDLE is a smaller-sized stocking-stuffer edition of the worldwide puzzle phenomenon Murdle series. In this adventure, you work through 25 logic puzzles to sleigh killers, find a missing Santa, and deck the halls with justice.
Mystery Jigsaw Puzzles
The Agatha Christie puzzles from Laurence King Publishing feature gorgeous illustrations, high-quality puzzle pieces, fold-out posters, and lots of clues for Christie fans to find.
Each 1,000-piece puzzle features characters from one or more of Agatha Christie's novels.
The And Then There Were Non puzzle focuses exclusively on Agatha Christie’s bestselling mystery.
The BePuzzled Mystery Jigsaw Puzzles feature a murder mystery waiting to be solved. You start by reading a short mystery story (included with the puzzle) and then piece together the 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle to uncover the hidden clues. The image on the box does not resemble the image on the finished puzzle—you must put the puzzle together without a reference image, which makes it extra challenging. After you finish the puzzle, you review the clues and solve the crime.
Reading Accessories
This $15 ultra-soft, fluffy, fuzzy, cozy blanket is made with premium microfiber. It is a #1 bestseller on Amazon and won a bedding award from Good Housekeeping this year. Available in multiple colors.
This Customizable Bookmark Set includes 100 pieces of blank white cardstock bookmarks and 100 colorful tassels for making your own bookmarks. It’s a great way to make a themed bookmark for every cozy you read.
Cozy Craft and Mystery Pairings
The Katech Beginner Knitting Kit features six yarn balls, two pairs of knitting needles, step-by-step instructions, and all of the other tools and materials you need to complete a 3-piece set with mittens, a scarf, and a hat. You can choose from pink, purple, blue, or light khaki yarn.
For extra cozy fun, pair your knitting kit with a knitting-themed Christmas mystery. Here are a few recommendations:
SILENT KNIT, DEADLY KNIT by Peggy Ehrhart
A DARK AND SNOWY NIGHT by Sally Goldenbaum
STOCKINGS AND SPELLS by Nancy Warren
MURDER AT A SCOTTISH CHRISTMAS By Traci Hall
The Aeelike 59-Piece Beginner Crochet Kit features instructional guides, ergonomic soft handle crochet hooks, lace crochet hooks, five balls of yarn, needles, gauges, and other tools to help you start creating crochet projects right away. Everything fits into a patterned zip-up case. Different case patterns are available.
For more cozy fun, pair your crochet kit with a crochet-themed Christmas mystery. Here are a few recommendations:
YOU BETTER KNOT DIE by Betty Hechtman
A GARLAND OF MURDER by Patti Benning
CROCHET, CANINES, & CROOKS by Nina Hayes
CROCHET AND CAULDRONS by Nancy Warren