2025 Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge

2025 Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge Tracking Post

Hosted by: Carol’s Notebook

Challenge Rules:

• You can read any book from the mystery/suspense/thriller/crime genres. Any sub-genres are welcome as long as they incorporate one of these genres.
• You don’t need a blog to participate, but you do need a place to post your reviews to link up. (blog, Goodreads, Instagram, etc.)
• Make a goal post and link it here with your goal for this challenge.
• Books need to be at least 100 pages long. Please, no short stories.
• Crossovers with other challenges are fine.
• The challenge will run from January 1st to December 31st. (Sign-up ends March 15th)

We still have our Facebook group, so if you haven’t joined, we would love for you to! It’s a closed group, so ask to join, and we’ll let you in.

Facebook Group

There will be a monthly link-up to see what everyone’s reading – and probably add some to our TBR lists. We will have a giveaway for those participating at the halfway mark and the end.

We’ll continue to use the hashtag #CloakDaggerChal.

Levels:

5-15 books – Amateur sleuth

16-25 books – Detective

26-35 books – Inspector

36 – 55 – Special agent

56+ books – Sherlock Holmes

Karen

My goal this year is to reach Inspector status with 30 books.

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

Jen

Jen’s goal this year is to be an Inspector status with 30 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. Smoked by Scotch by Lucy Lakestone
10. The Library Game by Gigi Pandian
11. Murder in an Irish Garden by Carlene O'Connor
12. Dead Post Society by Diane Kelly
13. The Boomerang by Robert Bailey
14. Doggone Bones by Carolyn Haines
15. Jill Is Not Happy by Kaira Rouda
16. Night of the Living Bread by Mary Lee Ashford
17. Lie In The Tide by Holly Danvers
18. A Camping Conundrum by Stacy Wilder
19. Her First Mistake by Kendra Elliot
20. Exposing Lethal Secrets by Deena Alexander
21. A Daughter's Guide to Mothers and Murder by Dianne Freeman
22. A Dead Draw by Robert Dugoni
23. Bodies and Battlements by Elizabeth Penney
24. Ashes Never Lie by Lee Goldberg
25. Hidden in Smoke by Lee Goldberg
26. Murder Most Eastern by Nellie H. Steele
27. Please Don't Lie by Christina Baker Kline, Anne Burt
28. The Grave Artist by Jeffery Deaver, Isabella Maldonado
29. Last Dance Before Dawn by Katharine Schellman
30. Murder Pays a Call by Nancy J. Cohen
31. Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes by Sandra Jackson-Opoku
32. The Bridge by Shanna Hatfield
33. Flamed Out by Valona Jones
34. Death on a Scottish Train by Lucy Connelly
35. The Big Fix by Holly James
36. Cluelessly Unscripted by Patricia Puentes
37. At Death's Dough by Mindy Quigley
38. I Become Her by Joe Hart
39. O, Deadly Night by Vicki Delany
40. A Wonderful Christmas Crime by Jacqueline Frost
41. The Kidnapping of Alice Ingold by Cate Holahan

Thank you for checking my and Jen’s progress on the 2025 Cloak and Dagger 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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