Mystery Reporter's Challenge 2025

  

Mystery Reporter's Challenge 2025 is sponsored by Ellie in The Challenge Factory on Goodreads.

My post in the challenge: HERE

Who? What? When? Where? Why?

How--In a cozy chair with a hot cup of cocoa and a box of bonbons!

I'll be going for the Columnist level (2 books from each basic category) and hoping to complete them all.

Cub Reporter: 5 books (one from each category) 

Columnist: 10 books (two from each) 

News Anchor: 15 books (three from each) 

Editor: 20 books (four from each) 

Newspaper Mogul: 25 books (all five from each)

Bonus Category:

Pulitzer Prize Winner = Newspaper Mogul plus bonus categories (30 books)

Extra Bonus Category

Nobel Prize for Literature = Pulitzer plus final bonus category (31 books) 

WHO

Protagonist is established in their business/career: Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective by Leslie Thomas (1/11/25)

Character is a dead person (ghost/vampire/zombie/etc.):

Main Character works with animals:

Side Character is fun/kooky (you want to be BFFs):

Character works with books/writes: Deadly Is the Diamond by Mary Roberts Rinehart [narrator is a writer]

WHAT

Number in title:

Food in title:

Title starts with letter in your first name:

Holiday in title:

Title is play on words:

WHERE

City that starts with C, M, or T:

Set in hotel/B&B/Air BnB: The Book of Killowen by Erin Hart (2/4/25)

Set in a Midwest state:

Set in a popular vacation spot:

Set on foreign soil (not US or England): Murder in Williamstown by Kerry Greenwood [Australia] (2/15/25)

WHEN

Set during celebration (not a holiday--birthday, anniversary, etc)

Set in 1900s: The Deadly Truth by Helen McCloy (1/15/25)

Set during winter: Thief Is an Ugly Word by Paul Gallico [January] (2/17/25)

Set during fall:Set during storm:

HOW

Strangled: The Devil's Flute Murders by Seishi Yokomizo (1/5/25)

Stabbed: The Art School Murders by Moray Dalton (1/20/25)

Shot: Poison for Teacher by Nancy Spain [one was poisoned--but also one shot] (1/31/25)

Poisoned: The Cloisters by Katy Hays (1/24/25)

Blunt Instrument: The Last Resort by Michael Kaufman (2/13/25)

BONUS--Pulitzer Prize

Who--you figured out who did it before the protagonist: "Inquest" by Henrietta Clandon (2/21/25)

What--title at least six words: The Girl from the Mimosa Club by Leslie Ford (2/6/25)

Where--set in fictional place you'd like to live: Capital Crimes: London Mysteries by Martin Edwards, ed (2/10/25)

When--during a holiday (not Christmas or Halloween)

How--unpremeditated

Extra Bonus--Nobel Prize 

Horoscope: Pick a horoscope from the 15th of any month and read a book related to the horoscope