2026 Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge

2026 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 subgenre is welcome as long as it incorporates 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 giveaways for participants at the halfway mark and at 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. Murder on the Sacred River by Tasha Alexander
2. Critters and Crimes by Elizabeth Pantley
3. Vows and Villainy by Elizabeth Penney
4. Cross Your Heart and Hope He Dies by Jenny Elder Moke
5. Teddy Bears and Ghostly Lairs by Heather Weidner
6. Death at a Firefly Tea by Laura Childs
7. Terror in Taffeta by Marla Cooper
8. Two Purloined Pillows by Allie Pleiter
9. A Blue Ribbon Murder by T.C. LoTempio
10. Misfortune Cookie by Vivien Chien
11. Dead Focused and Hocus Pocused by Marcy Blesy
12. Murder Most Trivial by Jessica Fletcher, Barbara Early
13. Hot Wings and Homicide by Carmela Dutra
14. The Diva Hosts a Murderer by Krista Davis
15. Death of an Antiquarian by Rose Kerr
16. A Cultivated Corpse by Debra Sennefelder
17. Winners & Liars by Aleema Omotoni
18. Trouble Is Brewing by Vicki Delany
19. The Dockside Letter by Clara Whitford
20. Purranormal Activity by Cate Conte
21. Murder at First Slice by Valerie Burns
22. Murder on Charity Lane by Jo Nichols
23. Fire at the Track by M.J. Evans

Jen

Jen’s goal this year is to be an Inspector with 30 books.

1. The Water Lies by Amy Meyerson
2. A Spy in Saigon by Nancy Cole Silverman
3. The Kidnapping of Alice Ingold by Cate Holahan
4. Fiend by Alma Katsu
5. The Second Son by Simon Gervais, Ryan Steck
6. The Peculiar Case of the Petersburg Professor by Sharon Kay
7. Murder Leads to Marriage by Shannon Peeples
8. Served Him Right by Lisa Unger
9. Homecoming Chaos by D.W. Brooks
10. Fallen Star by Lee Goldberg
11. The Roaring Ridleys by K.M. Colley
12. Payback by Elizabeth Rose Quinn
13. The Mediator by Robert Bailey
14. Ode to the Bones by Carolyn Haines
15. Dungeons and Danger by Elizabeth Penney
16. Murder by Design by Lee Goldberg
17. No Rest for the Wicked by Rachel Louise Adams
18. Lie in the Bay by Holly Danvers
19. Dreidels and Dead Ends by Nancy J. Cohen
20. The Mango Murders by Lucy Burdette
21. A Delicious Deception by Lucy Burdette
22. Killer Vibes by Jack Friday
23. Savvy Summers and the Po'boy Perils by Sandra Jackson-Opoku
24. The Barn Identity by Diane Kelly
25. Death at a Scottish Halloween by Lucy Connelly
26. Seeking the Kidnapped Child by Deena Alexander
27. The First to Die by Suzanne Trauth
28. Tell-Tale Treats by Jennifer J. Chow
29. The Neighbors Are Watching by Aggie Blum Thompson
30. The Mystic and the Missing Girl by Vikki VanSickle
31. Shofar, So Good by Aliza Levine

Thank you for checking my and Jen’s progress on the 2026 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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