Eleven festive mystery books for the holidays

Sabienna Bowman is a Digital News Editor at People magazine, where she has been working since 2023. She previously worked at PopSugar, Bustle and Scarymommy.

She tagged eleven festive mystery books that are to die for this holiday season, including:

Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards

A small British village is on the verge of being cut off from the outside world due to a winter storm as this delightfully twisty novel begins. Enter six people with links to the world of crime writing, each with their own sad tale and in need of a reversal of fortunes. They each receive an invite from the mysterious Midwinter Trust to visit the town and solve a fictional murder in exchange for a prize, but there's more to this strange invitation than first meets the eye.

Read about another entry on the list.

My Book, The Movie: Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife.

Q&A with Martin Edwards.

The Page 69 Test: Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife.

--Marshal Zeringue