January MysteryKIT Winter Mysteries

Welcome to the January, 2025 MysteryKIT!



The topic for this month is winter mysteries. Select a book with a wintry scene on the cover, a story that is set in winter months, an author with Winter in their name, or a book with Winter in the title. Other suggestions include settings related to winter or anything that reminds you of winter.

Think about winter activities, foods and beverages related to winter, holidays in winter, or anything else that fits the mysterious topic. Don't forget that winter in the southern hemisphere looks different from up north! Just be sure the story includes a mystery, since this is MysteryKIT.

Here are some ideas to get you thinking about possibilities. (Some of these are set at the Christmas holidays, but that is not required for this challenge. However, you might be able to do a "CAT trick" since some of these books fit with other challenges!)

British Crime Library selections, such as Crimson Snow
Christmas Cookie Murder and Mistletoe Murder by Leslie Meier
Dead and Gondola by Ann Claire
Feliz Navidead by Ann Myers
Gingerdead House by Nancy Warren (Great Witches' Baking Show)
Gingerdead Man by Maya Corrigan
God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen by Rhys Bowen
A Holiday Yarn by Sally Goldenbaum
Homicide for the Holidays by Cheryl Honigford
Midwinter Murder by Agatha Christie
A Midwinter's Tail by Sofie Kelly
Mrs. Jeffries and the Alms of the Angel by Emily Brightwell
Murder for Christmas by Agatha Christie
Mystery at the Ski Jump by Carolyn Keene (Nancy Drew)
A Noel Killing by M.L. Longworth
Santa Cruise by Mary Higgins Clark
Sleep in Heavenly Pizza by Mindy Quigley
Stockings and Spells by Nancy Warren (Vampire Knitting Club)
The Usual Santas Forward and Contributor Peter Lovesey
Various titles by Anne Perry
Winter Witches of Holiday Haven by Erin Johnson (if you like a little paranormal)

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I'm going with Cold Storage, Alaska.

I will try Murder Most Actual by Alexis Hall, where the sleuths and suspects are snowed in while weekending at a Scottish castle.

Planning to read Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret by Benjamin Stevenson.

Not sure yet what I'll read, but I like this theme!

I'm planning on The Spy Coast .

Winter is my favourite season, so looking forward to choosing a book for this.

I am planning on reading The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley where a group are snowed in at a Hunting Lodge and murder makes an appearance.

I've set aside Les chiens de Riga (The Dogs of Riga) by Henning Mankell. Set in Latvia, it starts with "It began to snow at around 10:00 am." so I'm guessing a nice Northern European icy winter.
It's the second book featuring Inspector Kurt Wallander.

The covers of these are wintery and they both have the tag "winter" (one is larger than the other), so my options appear to be:

- Rock, Paper, Scissors / Alice Feeney
- Breaking Silence / Linda Castillo

>1 LadyoftheLodge: I recommend "The Usual Santas", an anthology of Christmas-themed stories edited by Peter Lovesey.

>11 Dave_Perry: Thank you! I will add that to the list at the top.

Hope to read Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg.

>11 Dave_Perry: I second that recommendation!

I plan on reading Running out of time by Suzanne Trauth.

I have already started my new reading year and I read An English Murder by Cyril Hare. It is a Christmas mystery with lots of snow. I really enjoyed it!