2025 Medical Examiner’s Mystery Reading Challenge

2025 Medical Examiner’s Mystery Reading Challenge Tracking Post

Hosted by: Rick Mills Project

The 2025 Medical Examiner’s Mystery Reading Challenge will open on January 1! Your goal as a Medical Examiner is to read murder mysteries and attach toe tags to the unfortunate victim(s). There is no advance signup for this challenge; submit your first Death Certificate to begin. Read the General Information page and then file your death certificate.

File your Death Certificate here!

Karen

This year, I will complete at least 40 toe tags within 20+ books.

1. She Doesn't Have a Clue by Jenny Elder Moke
2. The Mystery in the Margins by L.L. Gray
3. Death at the Scottish Broch by Rose Kerr
4. The Next Deadly Chapter by V.M. Burns
5. Killing Me Soufflé by Ellie Alexander
6. High Tea and Misdemeanors by Laura Childs
7. Truth in the Smoke by S.P. Neeson
8. Mrs. Claus and the Santaland Slayings by Liz Ireland
9. Essence of Foul Play by Daryl Wood Gerber
10. Snowy with a Chance of Murder by Jessica Fletcher, Barbara Early
11. A Proposal to Die For by Molly Harper
12. Bait and Swiss by Korina Moss
13. Death by Chocolate Pumpkin Muffin by Sarah Graves
14. The Diva Poaches a Bad Egg by Krista Davis
15. Wheeler-Dealer by Rita Moreau
16. Hounding a Killer by Kallie E. Benjamin
17. A Whale of a Crime by Mona Marple
18. An Air Of Deceit by Kristen King
19. Puzzles and Premieres by Elizabeth Pantley
20. A Body in Boston by Jessica Fletcher, Terrie Farley Moran
21. Icing on the Murder by Valerie Burns
22. A Dish Best Served Dead by T.C. LoTempio
23. A Murder Most Fowl by Carmela Dutra
24. Claws Out by Cate Conte
25. Laying Down the Latte by Ellie Alexander
26. Death on Dickens Island by Allison Brook
27. Witch and Tell by Angela M. Sanders
28. Murder at the PTA by Lee Hollis
29. Revenge, Served Royal by Celeste Connally
30. Red as Royal Blood by Elizabeth Hart
31. The Body in the Trees by Jessica Fletcher, Terrie Farley Moran
32. The Case of the Beguiling Brooch by Terry Ambrose
33. Murder at Blackwood Inn by Penny Warner
34. Death at the Door by Olivia Blacke
35. The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective by Jo Nichols
36. Murder Strikes a Chord by Heather Weidner

Jen

Jen’s goal this year will be to complete at least 40 toe tags within 20+ books.

1. Wine and Whispers by Daisy Landish
2. Murder in Season by Mary Winters
3. Star-Crossed Egg Tarts by Jennifer J. Chow
4. A Killer's Code by Isabella Maldonado
5. February Fever by Jess Lourey
6. Wheels and Dirty Deals by Trixie Silvertale
7. Candle With Care by Valona Jones
8. Hiding the Witness (Love Inspired Suspense) by Deena Alexander
9. The Library Game by Gigi Pandian
10. Murder in an Irish Garden by Carlene O'Connor
11. Dead Post Society by Diane Kelly
12. The Boomerang by Robert Bailey
13. Jill Is Not Happy by Kaira Rouda
14. Night of the Living Bread by Mary Lee Ashford
15. Lie In The Tide by Holly Danvers
16. A Camping Conundrum by Stacy Wilder
17. Her First Mistake by Kendra Elliot
18. Exposing Lethal Secrets by Deena Alexander
19. A Daughter's Guide to Mothers and Murder by Dianne Freeman
20. A Dead Draw by Robert Dugoni
21. Bodies and Battlements by Elizabeth Penney
22. Ashes Never Lie by Lee Goldberg
23. Hidden in Smoke by Lee Goldberg
24. Murder Most Eastern by Nellie H. Steele
25. Please Don't Lie by Christina Baker Kline, Anne Burt
26. The Grave Artist by Jeffery Deaver, Isabella Maldonado
27. Last Dance Before Dawn by Katharine Schellman
28. Murder Pays a Call by Nancy J. Cohen
29. Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes by Sandra Jackson-Opoku
30. Flamed Out by Valona Jones
31. Death on a Scottish Train by Lucy Connelly
32. The Big Fix by Holly James
33. At Death's Dough by Mindy Quigley
34. I Become Her by Joe Hart
35. O, Deadly Night by Vicki Delany
36. A Wonderful Christmas Crime by Jacqueline Frost

Thank you for checking our progress on the 2025 Medical Examiner’s Mystery Reading Challenge. Please feel free to check out our other reading challenges for this year. You can find them linked to the menu above.

Happy Reading!

 

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