Last Updated: February 14, 2026
The Mysterious Case of the Mising Crime Writer
by Ragnar Jónasson
One winter evening, bestselling crime author Elín S. Jónsdóttir goes missing. There are no clues to her disappearance and it is up to young detective Helgi to crack the case before its leaked to the press.
Dead Line
by Marc Cameron
Deputy U.S. Marshals Arliss Cutter and Lola Teariki are at frozen Cheney Lake, finally nearing their prey. He’s Butch Pritchard, a killer-for-hire as ruthless as the Anchorage wind, and wanted for the murder of a 25-year-old pregnant woman in Missouri. A cruel hit orchestrated by the victim’s husband, Royce Decker, a former member of the St. Louis Metro PD and on the run too.
The Secret Christmas Library
by Jenny Colgan
Mirren Sutherland stumbled into a career as an antiquarian book hunter after finding a priceless antique book in her great aunt’s attic. Now, as Christmas approaches, she’s been hired by Jamie McKinnon, the laird of a Highland clan whose ancestral holdings include a vast crumbling castle. But on the train to the Highlands, Mirren runs into rival book hunter Theo Palliser, and instantly knows that it’s not a chance meeting. Almost as soon as Mirren and Theo arrive at the castle, a deep snow blankets the Highlands. Stuck inside, the three of them plot their search.
The Frozen People
by Elly Griffiths
Meet Ali Dawson: a police officer working on crimes so old, the joke goes, that they are not only cold but frozen. The cold case team has a secret: they can travel back in time to look for evidence. She arrives in the Victorian era during a mini ice age to find another dead woman at her feet and far too many unanswered questions. But when her son is arrested, Ali attempts to return home only to find herself trapped in 1850. In a race through and against time, can Ali prove her son’s innocence and discover the link between the nineteenth-century Collectors and a twenty-first century killing in time to prevent another death?
A Christmas Witness
by Charles Todd
December 1921. Inspector Rutledge of Scotland Yard gets the short straw at Christmastime and is called upon by Chief Superintendent Markum to go to the Kentish home of a lord recovering from an attempt on his life. In bed with a concussion, the man is convinced someone is trying to kill him. Rutledge undertakes an uneasy investigation. And as the winter holiday approaches, he becomes increasingly convinced that nothing is as it seems.
Snow Kissed
by RaeAnne Thayne
Holly’s little white lie about having a date to her ex’s family wedding backfires — until Ryan, a handsome newcomer spending Christmas in Shelter Springs, offers to step in. As they team up to give his niece a holiday to remember, their pretend romance starts to feel like the real thing … and just might lead to the magical Christmas they’ve both been wishing for.