The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year
Ally Carter
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
4.14
· Steam/Spice level: 2 of 5
Behind closed doors [?]
· 55 ratings · 110 pages · Published: 24 Sep 2024

The bridge is out. The phones are down. And the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of a locked room three days before Christmas.
Meet Maggie Chase and Ethan
She’s the new Queen of the Cozy Mystery.
He’s Mr. Big-time Thriller Guy.
She hates his guts.
He thinks her name is Marcie (no matter how many times she’s told him otherwise.)
But when they both accept a cryptic invitation to attend a Christmas house party at the English estate of a reclusive fan, neither is expecting their host to be the most powerful author in the Eleanor Ashley, the Duchess of Death herself.
That night, the weather turns, and the next morning Eleanor is gone.
She vanished from a locked room, and Maggie has to Is Eleanor in danger? Or is it all some kind of test? Is Ethan the competition? Or is he the only person in that snowbound mansion she can trust?
As the snow gets deeper and the stakes get higher, every clue will bring Maggie and Ethan closer to the truth—and each other. Because, this Christmas, these two rivals are going to have to become allies (and maybe more) if they have any hope of saving Eleanor.
Assuming they don’t kill each other first.
Tagged as:
- mystery 11
- sleuth heroine 11
- contemporary 11
- m-f romance 11
- christmas 10
- enemies to lovers 10
- dual pov 10
- funny 8
- sweet/gentle hero 8
- third person pov 7
- forced proximity 6
- competent heroine 5
- disabilities & scars 5
- suspense 3
- grumpy & sunshine 2
- bodyguard/protector hero 2
- male pov 1
- hurt/comfort 1
- tortured heroine 1
- tortured hero 1
- Add topics
- geography
- united kingdom 6
- england 4
- europe 1
- content warnings
- past abuse 1
- victim blaming 1
- mental trauma 1