Last year I read mostly cozy mysteries. Now that everything has settled out a little, maybe I’ll branch out some in 2025. Or maybe not. A lot of these can be filled with mysteries.
Books read:
- A pun in the title – Bait and Swiss by Korina Moss
- A character with red hair
- Title starts with letter “M” – Murder at Raven’s Hollow by Louise Marley
- Title starts with letter “N”
- Plot includes a heist
- Genre One: Set in Spring – The Masquerades of Spring by Ben Aaronovitch (fantasy)
- Genre Two: Set in Summer
- Genre Three: Set in Autumn – How to Seal Your Own Fate by Kristen Perrin (mystery)
- Genre Four: Set in Winter
- Author’s last name is also a first name – Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
- A prequel – Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz
- Has a moon on the cover – Full Moon Pups by Liz Garton Scanlon
- Title is ten letters or less
- Climate fiction
- Includes Latin American history
- Author has won an Edgar award – In the Shadow of Agatha Christie edited by Leslie S. Klinger
- Told in verse
- A character who can fly
- Has short chapters
- A fairy tale retelling
- Character’s name in the title – A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay
- Found family trope
- A sprayed edge
- Title is a spoiler – And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- Breaks the fourth wall – This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead
- More than a million copies sold
- Features a magician – The Library Game by Gigi Pandian
- A crossover (Set in a shared universe) – Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
- Shares universe with prompt 28 – The Mysterious Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie
- In the public domain – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Audiobook has multiple narrators
- Includes a diary entry – Knife Skills for Beginners by Orlando Murrin
- A standalone novel
- Direction in the title
- Written in third person
- Final sentence is less than 6 words long
- Genre chosen for you by someone else – (paranormal) Haunting and Homicide by Ava Burke
- An adventure story – The Treasure Hunters Club by Tom Ryan
- Has an epigraph – The Chow Maniac by Vivien Chien
- Stream of consciousness narrative
- Cover font is in a primary color
- Non-human antagonist
- Explores social class
- A celebrity on the cover – Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old by Brooke Shields
- Author releases more than one book a year – A Victim at Valentine’s by Ellie Alexander
- Read in a “-ber” month
- “I think it was blue” – The Secret of the Three Fates by Jess Armstrong
- Related to the word “puzzle” – The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood
- Set in a country with an active volcano
- Set in the 1940s – The Secret Detective Agency by Helena Dixon
- 300-400 pages long – I Kill Always Love You by Helen Golden
- Published in 2025 – The Antique Hunter’s Death on the Red Sea by C. L. Miller
- Set in a country that celebrates Lunar New Year
- A wise character
- By an Asian author – Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker