The 52 Book Club just put out their first full-sized genre-specific challenge. All books read for this challenge must be mysteries, but there is not timeline for completing it. The mystery challenge contains fifty different “cases.” Match one mystery to each case for a total of fifty different books. Cases are related to different mystery elements and tell you what to look for in a book.
- A classic mystery: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
- An opening line that hooks you:
- An “impossible” crime:
- Murder disguised as an accident:
- A missing person:
- A cozy mystery: Murder by Cheesecake by Rachel Ekstrom Courage
- An unsettling read:
- Title includes the word “death” or “dead:” A Disorganised Death by Simon Brett
- A white-collar crime:
- A humorous mystery:
- The “brilliant detective” trope:
- An amateur sleuth:
- Antagonist toys with the detective:
- Includes a podcaster, writer, or journalist:
- A crime-solving duo: Murder on the Rocks by T.E. Kinsey
- Detective has to confront their own past:
- An iconic detective: The Labors of Hercules by Agatha Christie
- Police procedural:
- A detective on the cover:
- Title starts with first letter of author’s last name:
- A serial killer:
- An unreliable narrator:
- A victim with lots of enemies:
- Features small town secrets: Murder with a Side of Shrimp and Grits by Skylar Warren
- Written from multiple suspects’ perspectives:
- A “new-to-you” author:
- A crime of passion:
- A character wrongly accused: A Staged Death by Samantha Larsen
- Set by a lake:
- A character with memory gaps:
- A missing murder weapon:
- Solved with forensic science:
- Mystery / other genre:
- A snowy setting: The Antique Hunter’s Murder at the Castle by C.L. Miller
- Hidden rooms and secret passages:
- A book you can’t put down:
- Includes an inheritance or will:
- “I know what you did last summer:”
- Published before 1960:
- Has flashbacks:
- A “Howdunit” or “Whydunit:”
- Features a courtroom scene:
- From a completed series:
- An ending that surprised you:
- More than 4 stars on Goodreads: Dungeons and Danger by Elizabeth Penney
- A house on the cover: The Vanishing at Hallwood Hall by Helena Marchmont
- Collection of true crime mysteries:
- Recommended by an author on this challenge:
- Suspects all gathered for a big reveal:
- Published this year (final book of challenge):