Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christmas Corpse | 2020 | Mona Marple | N/A |
| 2 | A Whale of a Crime | 2025 | Mona Marple | Buy |
| 3 | Slay Bells Ring | - | Mona Marple | N/A |
| 4 | A Lost Claus | - | Mona Marple | N/A |
| 5 | Mistletoe Murder | - | Mona Marple | N/A |
| 6 | Yule Be Sorry | - | Mona Marple | N/A |
| 7 | Holly Jolly Homicide | 2024 | Mona Marple | N/A |
| 8 | Nutcracker Conspiracy | - | Mona Marple | N/A |
Mona Marple’s Yorkshire Coast Cozy Mystery series is an eight-book cozy mystery collection set along England’s Yorkshire coastline. The series opens with Christmas Corpse, published in 2020, and leans heavily into holiday-themed mysteries. Titles like Slay Bells Ring, A Lost Claus, Mistletoe Murder, Yule Be Sorry, Holly Jolly Homicide, and Nutcracker Conspiracy all carry Christmas and winter settings, making this a series built around festive crime-solving.
A Whale of a Crime, published in 2025, stands as the newest entry and breaks from the holiday pattern with its title. The series falls squarely within the cozy mystery and crime fiction genres, so readers can expect amateur sleuths, small-town settings, and puzzles to solve rather than graphic content. Reading in order from Christmas Corpse onward is the best approach, since characters and their relationships carry forward from book to book.