The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year is as fun as the cover looks. Rom-com mysteries can be hit or miss, but this one was funny and cute and twisty without being annoying.
Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt are both bestselling authors, rivals who don't get along well. Now they have both been invited to spend Christmas with a mysterious "fan" in England, who turns out to be the queen of mystery writers, Eleanor Ashley. They are joined by Eleanor's various family members and other staff, but on the night after their arrival, Eleanor disappears from a locked room. They're snowed in and it seems that someone wants to commit murder. Maggie and Ethan have to put aside their differences to figure out what's going on.
The mystery is put together surprisingly well. Just about everyone on the estate is a potential suspect - Eleanor was rich and most of them have something to gain from her death. Eleanor herself has...