Murder Under the Mistletoe: Printable Cozy Word Search Mystery (PDF)

The town blames the stray. The Squad knows better.

Every December, Bearberry Hollow strings ten thousand lights across the Town Green for its Holiday Market: cocoa, carols, a skating pond, and a Santa who knows every child's name. This year the market closes with a body in the skating shed, an empty cashbox, and a stray dog's paw prints in the fresh snow.

By morning the Mayor has made it official. Marmalade, a scruffy terrier with a torn ear who has been sleeping under the tavern porch, goes on the county truck on Friday. Little Bear has other plans. So does the rest of the King Bear Squad, because the snow tells a different story. Nobody walked out of that shed after 9:31. Somebody skated.

Instant PDF download. 137 pages, letter size (8.5 x 11 inches). Print the whole case, or one chapter at a time, on any home printer.

You don't read this mystery. You solve it.

• Read a short chapter. Five suspects, five stories, and one of them is a lie.
• Search the full-page puzzle. Every bold word from the story is hidden in the grid.
• Reveal the clue. The leftover letters spell a secret message that moves the case forward.
• Name the killer before Chapter 49, then find out if you beat the Squad.

Inside

• 50 story chapters and 50 word search puzzles: one complete, fair-play holiday mystery
• Large print throughout: every word is 16-point or larger
• A hidden clue in every puzzle, with blanks to fill in
• Difficulty that grows with you: forward words first, then backward, then all eight directions
• Cartoon illustrations on every chapter, and 12 hidden crowns to find
• A map of the Holiday Market, the Legend of the Yule Log, the Squad Code, a suspect notebook, and a clue tracker
• A complete Case Closed solution and a full answer key
• Cozy and clean: no gore, no bad language, and no animal is ever harmed

Case 2 of the King Bear Squad Word Search Mysteries, and every case stands on its own. A printable gift that lasts longer than Christmas morning.

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