Ali Dawson · Book 3

The Case of the Christmas Card

by Elly Griffiths

Announced for
8 October 2026
Pages
176
ISBN-13
9781529449570
Type
novella

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Cover of The Case of the Christmas Card

About this book

The Case of the Christmas Card, a shorter festive novella slotted as book 2.5 at 176 pages, is scheduled for 8 October 2026, a bonus entry in Elly Griffiths's Ali Dawson series best read after The Killing Time rather than instead of it.

Its place in Ali Dawson

The Case of the Christmas Card is book 3 in the Ali Dawson series. It follows The Killing Time. See the full Ali Dawson reading order.

Elly Griffiths's newest series gives her signature blend of procedural mystery and deep historical texture a genuinely new engine: time travel. Ali Dawson is a fifty-something detective with red hair and a nose ring who works for the fictional Department of Logistics, a secretive unit that has quietly been solving cold cases since 2020 by sending investigators physically back into the past. In The Frozen People (2025), Ali travels to 1850s London to clear the name of Cain Templeton, the eccentric Victorian…

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