Adult Winter Reading: Winter Mysteries

With her trouble-magnet cousin returning to Shady Palms for Christmas, cafe owner Lila Macapagal isn’t surprised when she has to clear his name after he’s accused of murder in the third novel of the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen series following Homicide and Halo-Halo (recipes included!).

One of the residents of Haven’s Rock, a sanctuary town in the Yukon, is drugged and wanders too close to the edge of town, then is taken into the woods. Pregnant Detective Casey Duncan and husband Sherriff Eric Duncan begin to investigate while a snowstorm descends.

Lady Emily must solve a string of high stakes “accidents” while trapped in a lavish villa in the Bavarian Alps.

A selection of 18 stories featuring murders and intrigue at Christmastime.

Curated by New York Times bestselling author Tod Goldberg, this collection of twelve delightful and twisted Hanukkah capers will entertain you through all eight nights of the Festival of Lights.

Ernest Cunningham narrates the macabre and darkly funny history of his family, in which every member has killed someone, as he unhappily attends their family reunion at a ski resort.

When homegrown celebrity Rhys Lloyd is murdered after opening the doors to his new luxury resort on New Year’s Eve, Ffion Morgan, called in to investigate, fears her deep ties to this once tranquil village will reveal dark truths about her neighbors, friends, family and even herself.

An investigation into a gang of Nazi-affiliated art thieves leads Billy Boyle and his comrades directly into the line of fire at the catastrophic Battle of the Bulge.

London, 189–: The great city is brought to a standstill by a series of blizzards and Sherlock Holmes is bored to distraction. But, next thing you know, there are several corpses and Sherlock Holmes and his biographer, John H. Watson, MD, find themselves drawn into one of the most bizarre cases of the great detective’s career.

While baking up spiced curry buns and chai cookies for a moonlit snowshoe tour, pastry chef turned amateur sleuth Jules Capshaw takes Ramiro’s family to the annual Downhill Dummy competition, where murder comes in first and Jules must catch a stone-cold killer before they strike again.

On stormy Mackinac Island, widower Mimi and her heartbroken granddaughter Addie attend a socialite’s charity auction, only to uncover blackmail, murder and a dangerous game that tests their wits as they race to outsmart a killer trapped with them by a blustering snowstorm.