25 must-read crime books like The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict

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The Christmas Murder Game

By: Alexandra Benedict

3.39

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Twelve clues. Twelve keys. Twelve days of Christmas. But how many will die before Twelfth Night? …

"... przemilczany uraz przechodzi w trwały ból. To, że nie objawia się na zewnątrz, nie znaczy, że zanikł."

-Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game

"Leaves have fallen onto the snow like punctuation marks. They've held on for so long, but winter gets to us all in the end."

-Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game

"Fear and excitement are twins; they live on opposite sides of the same door. It's up to you which room you live in. [Violet Harper Armitage]"

-Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game

"Tragedia nie oznacza, że nie można się dobrze bawić (...) Czasami emocje są ze sobą połączone. (...) Strach jest po drugiej stronie muru ekscytacji. (...) To pomaga nam docenić życie."

-Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game

If you liked the crime plot in The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Cover of Dying For Christmas by Tammy Cohen

1. Dying For Christmas

By: Tammy Cohen

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

I am missing. Held captive by a blue-eyed stranger. To mark the twelve days of Christmas, he gives … read more

Similar categories in Tammy Cohen's Dying For Christmas book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

2. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Motives for Murder: A fortune in uncut diamonds, hidden by an eccentric old man - A woman's love, t… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

Cover of Marple: Twelve New Mysteries by Naomi Alderman

3. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

By: Naomi Alderman

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery’s legendary detective Jane M… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Alderman's Marple: Twelve New Mysteries book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5) by Sophie Hannah

4. Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)

By: Sophie Hannah

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot – legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the … read more

Similar categories in Sophie Hannah's Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2) by Robert Thorogood

5. Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks – AKA the Marlow Murder Clu… read more

Similar categories in Robert Thorogood's Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"... Feynman's technique was simple. And he claimed that it was always successful. But it' not currently working for me. Not yet. What was it? Well, when he was building the first atomic bomb, he obse…"

-Robert Thorogood, Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

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6. The Christmas Guest

By: Peter Swanson

3.63

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

An American art student in London is invited to join a classmate for the holidays at Starvewood Hal… read more

Similar categories in Peter Swanson's The Christmas Guest book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) by Kristen Perrin

7. How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

By: Kristen Perrin

3.80

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Frances Adams always said she'd be murdered. She was right. It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams … read more

Similar categories in Kristen Perrin's How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"My favourite chess saying is very simple: You can play without a plan, but you’ll probably lose.’ - Rutherford Gravesdown"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You stupid b*tch, you think you're so worthy? You deserve nothing but a hole in the ground. You're a wh*re and a liar, and I swear if you don't stop this I'll snap your scrawny neck like a twig."

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"Don’t worry, Annie, I’m not going to murder you.’ ‘I appreciate that, Saxon,’ I reply. ‘I’m not going to murder you either.’ And then we both smile, because this is such a strange thing to say ten mi…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You little b*tch, you think you can stand in my way? You're so used to getting what you want, with your perfect pretty face. If you don't stop I swear I'll ruin that face. I'll put your bones in a bo…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

Cover of The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett

8. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

By: Janice Hallett

3.95

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into belie… read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra  Benedict

9. The Christmas Murder Game

By: Alexandra Benedict

3.39

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Twelve clues. Twelve keys. Twelve days of Christmas. But how many will die before Twelfth Night? … read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • holiday
  • adult
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"... przemilczany uraz przechodzi w trwały ból. To, że nie objawia się na zewnątrz, nie znaczy, że zanikł."

-Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game

"Leaves have fallen onto the snow like punctuation marks. They've held on for so long, but winter gets to us all in the end."

-Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game

"Fear and excitement are twins; they live on opposite sides of the same door. It's up to you which room you live in. [Violet Harper Armitage]"

-Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game

"Tragedia nie oznacza, że nie można się dobrze bawić (...) Czasami emocje są ze sobą połączone. (...) Strach jest po drugiej stronie muru ekscytacji. (...) To pomaga nam docenić życie."

-Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game

Cover of The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5) by Janice Hallett

10. The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5)

By: Janice Hallett

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This immersive holiday caper from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) follows t… read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • holiday
  • adult
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder by C.L.   Miller

11. The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder

By: C.L. Miller

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this irresistible and thrilling debut novel, a former antique hunter investigates a suspicious d… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Miller's The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) by Richard Osman

12. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

By: Richard Osman

4.49

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been … read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"His authentic indifference seems to delight them."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I think Psychopaths wear lipstick too,' says Joyce."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I love you,' he says. Because what else is there to say?"

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"Sure,' says Ron. 'She wants to kill me. Bake her some scones."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

Cover of The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3) by Robert Thorogood

13. The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The Marlow Murder Club is on the hunt for a killer... Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies su… read more

Similar categories in Robert Thorogood's The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger

14. Christmas Presents

By: Lisa Unger

3.65

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Instead of presents this Christmas, one true crime podcaster is opening up a cold case…When true cr… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Unger's Christmas Presents book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • holiday
  • adult
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1) by Benjamin   Stevenson

15. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

By: Benjamin Stevenson

3.79

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than onc… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"But I promised to be reliable, not competent"

-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

"Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it's who you'd spill it for."

-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

"Call me a reliable narrator. Everything I tell you will be the truth, or, at least, the truth as I knew it to be at the time that I thought I knew it."

-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

"...my editor had crossed out my first go at this sentence and written Hypo=cold, Hyper=hot in the margin, in that helpful yet smug voice editors are born with, wishing to both correct you and impart …"

-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

Cover of Murder at the Theatre Royale (Christmas Mystery, #2) by Ada Moncrieff

16. Murder at the Theatre Royale (Christmas Mystery, #2)

By: Ada Moncrieff

3.18

Format: 253 pages, ebook

It's Christmas at London's Theatre Royale and journalist Daphne King is determined to solve an extr… read more

Similar categories in Ada Moncrieff's Murder at the Theatre Royale (Christmas Mystery, #2) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Second Stranger by Martin Griffin

17. The Second Stranger

By: Martin Griffin

3.43

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

Remie Yorke has one shift left at the Mackinnon Hotel in the remote Scottish Highlands before she l… read more

Similar categories in Martin Griffin's The Second Stranger book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder Most Festive (Christmas Mystery, #1) by Ada Moncrieff

18. Murder Most Festive (Christmas Mystery, #1)

By: Ada Moncrieff

3.30

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

It's Christmas at Westbury Manor and amateur detective Hugh Gaveston must unravel a fiendish myster… read more

Similar categories in Ada Moncrieff's Murder Most Festive (Christmas Mystery, #1) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Twelve Days of Murder by Andreina Cordani

19. The Twelve Days of Murder

By: Andreina Cordani

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Eight friends created the exclusive Masquerade Murder Society while in college. The murders they so… read more

Similar categories in Andreina Cordani's The Twelve Days of Murder book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder at Holly House (Frank Grasby Mystery, #1) by Denzil Meyrick

20. Murder at Holly House (Frank Grasby Mystery, #1)

By: Denzil Meyrick

3.64

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A village of secrets It's December 1952, and a dead stranger has been found lodged up the chimney … read more

Similar categories in Denzil Meyrick's Murder at Holly House (Frank Grasby Mystery, #1) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) by Benjamin   Stevenson

21. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)

By: Benjamin Stevenson

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the … read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club, #1) by Robert Thorogood

22. The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club, #1)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.79

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

To solve an impossible murder, you need an impossible hero… Judith Potts is seventy-seven years … read more

Similar categories in Robert Thorogood's The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club, #1) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Góra kłopotów (Góra kłopotów, #1) by Marek Stelar

23. Góra kłopotów (Góra kłopotów, #1)

By: Marek Stelar

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Gdyby misiek wiedział co go czeka w nadchodzące Święta, najprawdopodobniej właśnie wyjeżdżałby ze Ś… read more

Similar categories in Marek Stelar's Góra kłopotów (Góra kłopotów, #1) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • christmas
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Una Navidad escocesa by Mónica Gutiérrez Artero

24. Una Navidad escocesa

By: Mónica Gutiérrez Artero

3.43

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Cuando el fantasma del tío Archie le confiesa que está cansado de seguir vagando por el castillo de… read more

Similar categories in Mónica Gutiérrez Artero's Una Navidad escocesa book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • christmas
  • contemporary
Cover of Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter

25. Murder in the Family

By: Cara Hunter

3.75

Format: 466 pages, Paperback

A shocking thriller about a cold case, a fictional true crime series, and the family caught in the … read more

Similar categories in Cara Hunter's Murder in the Family book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder Road by Simone St. James

26. Murder Road

By: Simone St. James

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deser… read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's Murder Road book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Night Before Christmas (DI James Walker #4) by Alex Pine

27. The Night Before Christmas (DI James Walker #4)

By: Alex Pine

4.00

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

This Christmas, the hunters become the hunted… When four trail hunters go missing in the fells o… read more

Similar categories in Alex Pine's The Night Before Christmas (DI James Walker #4) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder at Maybridge Castle (Christmas Mystery, #3) by Ada Moncrieff

28. Murder at Maybridge Castle (Christmas Mystery, #3)

By: Ada Moncrieff

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A harmless game of Murder in the Dark? Or an invitation to die for? It's Christmas 1936 and an e… read more

Similar categories in Ada Moncrieff's Murder at Maybridge Castle (Christmas Mystery, #3) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • mystery thriller
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of La taverna degli assassini by Marcello Simoni

29. La taverna degli assassini

By: Marcello Simoni

3.23

Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition

Un giallo irrisolvibile Un’indagine di Vitale Federici Dalla penna dell’autore italiano di gialli s… read more

Similar categories in Marcello Simoni's La taverna degli assassini book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • thriller
Cover of An Unfortunate Christmas Murder (Dinner Lady Detectives, #2) by Hannah Hendy

30. An Unfortunate Christmas Murder (Dinner Lady Detectives, #2)

By: Hannah Hendy

3.44

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Tis the season for gold, frankincense and murder… It’s winter in the small town of Dewstow, and… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Hendy's An Unfortunate Christmas Murder (Dinner Lady Detectives, #2) book and Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Murder Game

  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Il mistero del dipinto scomparso by Iacopo Cellini

31. Il mistero del dipinto scomparso

By: Iacopo Cellini

3.07

Format: 192 pages, ebook

Giallo enigma Molti sospettati, un solo colpevole. Entra nelle stanze del castello e risolvi tu… read more

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