The Christmas Murder Game cover art

The Christmas Murder Game

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

The Christmas Murder Game

By: Alexandra Benedict
Narrated by: Laura Costello
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £27.99

Buy Now for £27.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Twelve clues.

Twelve keys.

Twelve days of Christmas.

But who will survive until Twelfth Night?

Lily Armitage never intended to return to Endgame House - the grand family home where her mother died twenty-one Christmases ago. Until she receives a letter from her aunt, asking her to return to take part in an annual tradition: the Christmas Game. The challenge? Solve twelve clues, to find twelve keys. The prize? The deeds to the manor house.

Lily has no desire to win the house. But her aunt makes one more promise: The clues will also reveal who really killed Lily's mother all those years ago.

So, for the twelve days of Christmas, Lily must stay at Endgame House with her estranged cousins and unravel the riddles that hold the key not just to the family home, but to its darkest secrets. However, it soon becomes clear that her cousins all have their own reasons for wanting to win the house - and not all of them are playing fair.

As a snowstorm cuts them off from the village, the game turns deadly. Soon Lily realises that she is no longer fighting for an inheritance, but for her life.

This Christmas is to die for . . . Let the game begin

The perfect gift for fans of Agatha Christie and classic crime this Christmas.

©2021 Alexandra Benedict (P)2021 Bonnier Books UK Amateur Sleuths Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Winter Christmas Fiction Game Detective Crime

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Bookshop Murder cover art
Murder at the Dolphin Hotel: A Gripping Cozy Historical Mystery cover art
The Dinner Lady Detectives cover art
Murder at Everham Hall cover art
Murder at Little Minton cover art
Murder at the Spring Ball cover art
Murder Most English cover art
Murder After Christmas cover art
The Lodge cover art
Beneath the Shadows cover art
Mystery on Hidden Lane: An Utterly Gripping Cozy Mystery Novel cover art
The Stargazers cover art
The Charity Shop Detective Agency cover art
Murder at the House on the Hill cover art
The Thin Place cover art
The Medici Murders cover art

Critic reviews

'Curl up by the fire (and lock all the doors) for this Christmas cracker of a book' C.S. GREEN

'Utterly original and breathtakingly intriguing . . . A must-read this Christmas' STEPH BROADRIBB

'The perfect updating of the classic Christmas Country House mystery . . . Fabulous festive fun' DEREK FARRELL
All stars
Most relevant  
Really enjoyed this Christmas romp. It was well put together with great riddles to solve and interesting characters. Very enjoyable.

A great, challenging who dunnit

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Keeps you guessing all the way through . Well narrated with a Agatha Christie type plot.

Good and unusual murder mystery

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Alexandra Benedict is a clear fan of the golden age. The story pulls you along confidently and with the certainty that you’ve listened carefully and followed the clues set out before you.

An ode to the Golden Age

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Don’t usually write reviews but have to as I gave this a chance despite bad reviews! If you love Christmas, murder mysteries and clues you will love this.

Festive mystery at its finest

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I enjoyed this book. Lots of twists and turns. Will try another book from this author.

Good narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book gets better as it goes on! The plot twists made me stop reading, multiple times!

Plot twists!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Gripped from the start. I had a guest as to who it was, back and forth. Turns out I was right in my first guess, but then thought No, after something happens.... You'll have to listen, I'm not telling.

Keeps you wondering

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
the characters were all very different yet believable good story didn't get the killer till almost the end

the descriptive scenes

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Oh for a hard copy and red pen! Very flowery with far too many descriptions leaving the listener with the thought they are assumed to have no imagination. Definitely in the cozy murder genre.

Oh for a hard copy and red pen!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
loved this book soo good hope to read more by this author would recommend a very good read

atmosphere

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews