CHALLENGES:
REPORTER CHALLENGE 2025
Who? What? Where? When? How?
Why? – Because it's fun!
Columnist: 10 books (2 from each category)
News Anchor: 15 books (3 from each category)
Editor: 20 books (4 from each category)
Newspaper Mogul: 25 books (5 from each category)
BONUS CATEGORY:
Pulitzer Prize Winner (Newspaper Mogul plus Bonus Category) = 30 books
EXTRA BONUS CATEGORY:
Nobel Prize for Literature (Newspaper Mogul plus Pulitzer Prize + Extra Bonus) = 31 books
TOTAL=27/31
5/5
WHO
Protagonist is established in their business or career The Little Lost Library by Ellery Adams (bookshop)
Any Character who is a dead person (ghost, skeleton, vampire, zombie…anybody who is dead) A New Lease on Death by Olivia Blacke (ghost)
A Main Character who works with animals (K9, trainer, vet, etc.) You Have Gone Too Far by Carlene O'Connor (vet)
A Side Character who is fun/kooky (you'd want to be this person's BFF) Miss Morton and the Spirits of the Underworld by Catherine Lloyd (Mrs. Frogerton)
A Character who works with books or writes A Killer Clue by Victoria Gilbert (Cataloger)
4/5
WHAT
A number in the title Two weddings and a Murder by Alyssa Maxwell
A food in the title Mint Cookie Murder by Leslie Langtry
Title starts with any letter in your first name Everyone on this Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
Holiday in the title A Halloween to Die For by M.P. Black
Title is a play on words
WHERE
Set in a city that starts with a C, an M or a T I'll Be Home for Mischief by Jacqueline Frost (Mistletoe, Maine)
Set in a hotel/B&B/ Airbnb (doesn't have to be whole story)
Set in a Midwest state Merit Badge Murder by Leslie Langtry (Iowa)
Set in a popular vacation spot (Hawaii, cruise, island, etc) The Girl With the Dragonfruit Tattoo by Carrie Doyle (island)
Set on foreign soil (NOT America or England) Death At An Irish Wedding by Ellie Brannigan (Ireland)
WHEN
Set during a celebration (not a holiday- birthday, business opening, wedding, etc)
Set in the 1900s We Three Queens by Rhys Bowen
Set during winter Murder Between the Tides by Michael Campling
Set during fall The Rose Arbor by Rhys Bowen
Set during a storm (doesn't have to be whole story) The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
5/5
HOW
Strangled The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime by Vicki Delany
Stabbed Cremains of the Day by Misty Simon
Shot The Case of the Christie Conspiracy by Kelly Oliver
Poisoned Murder in Season by Mary Winters
Blunt Instrument Hide and Sneak by G.A. McKevett
5/5
BONUS CATEGORY – PULITZER PRIZE
WHO – A book where you figured out who did it before the protagonist figured it out A Merry Little Murder Plot by Jenn McKinlay
WHAT – Title is at least six words Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder by Catherine Lloyd
WHERE – Set in a fictional place you would love to live Mrs. Claus and the Nightmare Before New Year's by Liz Ireland (Santaland)
WHEN – During a Holiday (NOT Halloween or Christmas) Valentine's Villian by Jennifer Oberth
HOW – Not premeditated Gingerbread Danger by Amanda Flower
EXTRA BONUS CATEGORY – NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
Horoscope (from on-line or a newspaper or wherever)
Pick a horoscope from the 15th of any month. Then read a book that relates to that horoscope.
A - Z Challenge
13/26
A
Bitter Brew by G.A. McKevett
C
D
E
Fudge and Jury by Ellie Alexander
Gingerbread Danger by Amanda Flower
Haunting Homicide by Ava Burke
I Only Read Murder by Ian Ferguson & Will Ferguson
J
Knitmare on Beech Street by Peggy Ehrhart
Lost Coast Literary by Ellie Alexander
Miss Morton and the Deadly Inheritance by Catherine Lloyd
Now or Never by Janet Evanovich
O
Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder by Bellamy Rose
Q
R
S
Trail of the Firewriter by R. J. Haig
U
Valentine's Villian by Jennifer Oberth
W
X
You Shouldn't Be Here by Lauren Thoman
Z
Cruising Through the Cozies Challenge
Going for Investigator!
17/20 COMPLETED
2 from culinary (anything dealing with food: restaurants, baked goods, etc.)
Tastes Like Murder by Catherine Bruns (cookie bakery)
Flat White Fatality by Emmeline Duncan (food truck)
2 from animal related (cats, dogs, birds, etc.)
It’s All in the Title Challenge 2025
1) Animal in title When Bunnies Go Bad by Clea Simon
2) Color in title
3) Number in title We Three Queens by Rhys Bowen
4) Job (or career) in title Schooled in Murder by Victoria Gilbert
5) Food in title Mint Cookie Murder by Leslie Langtry
6) Flavor in title (chocolate, caramel, etc.) Gingerbread Danger by Amanda Flower
7) Holiday in title Mrs. Claus and the Nightmare Before New Year's by Liz Ireland
8) Fire in title (flame, candle, light, etc.) Trail of the Firewriter by R. J. Haig
9) Name in title (any proper name) Miss Morton and the Deadly Inheritance by Catherine Lloyd
10) Place in title A Cotswold Christmas by Rebecca Tope
11) Relationship in title (aunt, uncle, grandmother, parent, niece, etc.)
12) Supernatural element in title (witch, vampire, skeleton, etc.) Miss Morton and the Spirits of the Underworld by Catherine Lloyd
13) Weather in title (snow, cold, sunny, rain, ice, etc.)
14) Death in title A New Lease on Death by Olivia Blacke
15) Alliteration in title
16) Craft word in title (knit, needle, etc.)
17) Title is a play on words I'll Be Home for Mischief by Jacqueline Frost
18) Seven word title (or more) Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder by Catherine Lloyd
19) Two word title Bitter Brew by G.A. McKevett
20) Weapon in title
21) Action verb in title
22) Adjective in title The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
23) Piece of clothing in title
24) Library reference in title (checked out, etc.) The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner
25) Unusual word in title Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop by Emmeline Duncan
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