**Shelly Super Sleuth 2021 reading challenge**

[Shelly]

Shelly Seddon Paxson | 3 comments Level 3 Super Sleuth

💯ALL COMPLETE💯

03-10-21 maybe I’ll try for Sleuth Extraordinaire!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Going for Sleuth Extraordinaire👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Welcome to the 11th annual Cruisin' thru the Cozies Reading Challenge! Once again, I am going to give challengers the option of reading sub-genres or cozies of their choice.

To find out exactly what a cozy mystery is, check out Cozy-Mystery.com. This site is dedicated to cozy mysteries and does a great job of defining them as well as giving a list of cozy mysteries. This challenge is NOT restricted to what is on their list, it's just to be used as a guideline in case you need some hints on what to read.

This year's cozy mystery reading challenge once again has two ways to participate and you can choose whichever suits you the best:


B) 📕Read two books from these sub-genres:

- ✅✅One from culinary (anything dealing with food: restaurants, baked goods, etc.)
#1 Murder on a Silver Platter (A Red Carpet Catering Mystery, #1) by Shawn Reilly Simmons #2 The Big Chili (Undercover Dish Mystery #1) by Julia Buckley
Catering

-✅✅One from animal related (cats, dogs, birds, etc.)
#1 PENGUINS AND MORTAL PERIL by Ruby Loren
#2 BLESS HER DEAD LITTLE HEART by Miranda James

-✅✅One from craft related (any kind of hobbies - knitting, crocheting, scrapbooking, etc.)
#1 MURDER, SHE KNIT by Peggy Ehrhart
#2 DEATH BEE COMES HER by Nancy Coco

- ✅✅One from paranormal (witches, vampires, etc.)
#1 One Poison Pie by Lynn Cahoon - Mia is a kitchen witch
#2 The Tell-All by Libby Howard - Kay has a ghost that follows her

- ✅✅One from cozy mysteries based outside the US (example: Belinda Lawrence series (British))
#1: The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin, #1) by M.C. Beaton #2: Buried in a Bog (County Cork, #1) by Sheila Connolly

- ✅✅One career-based cozy mystery (housekeeping, wedding planner, etc.)
#1 The Inspector and Mrs Jeffries (Mrs.Jeffries Mysteries Book 1) by Emily Brightwell
Housekeeper
#2 Mrs. Jefferies Dusts for Clues

✅✅- One holiday based (set during any holiday - Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentines, etc.)
#1 COTTAGE ON GOOSEBERRY BAY KISS ‘N TELL by Kathi Daley
Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder by Joanne Fluke - Easter

- ✅✅ One travel mystery (character could be on a cruise, touring another area, etc.)Murder on the SS Rosa by Lee Strauss Starboard Secrets by Hope Callaghan

- ✅✅One historical mystery (any mystery not set in the present)
#1 AND ONLY TO DECEIVE by Tasha Alexander set in the 1890’s
#2 A Poisoned Season by Tasha Alexander

- ✅✅One is your choice! (freebie!)
#1 A Dark and Stormy Murder by Julia Buckley
#2 Death on Tap by Ellie Alexander


📚Level three (Super Sleuth) - B -30/30 total

📚📕📚B) Read two books from each sub-genre in level one plus an additional 10 cozy books of your choice (total of 30 books)


10/10 Cozies of my choice✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅


📚📕📚Level four (Sleuth Extraordinaire) -
10/10 TEN EXTRA COZIES: ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅


A)Read 40 cozy mysteries of your choice.
🎉 40/40🎉 B)Read two books from each sub-genre in level one plus an additional 20 cozy books of your choice (total of 40 books)

JUST FOR EXTRA:


Here are the rules...

1. The challenge runs from January 1, 2021 and ends December 31, 2021.

2. You don't have to choose your books in advance. If you do, you can change your list at any time during the year. Books can overlap with other challenges.

3. Books can be in any format - paper, audio, ebooks...it all counts!

4. You don't have to post a review, but I'm sure others would love to know about the books you are reading and may even want to add it to their reading lists.

This year I'm going to try something a little different. I will have one folder for "2021 Reading Challenge Participants". Under that folder, create your own topic to track your level and progress.

Have fun!

[Britney]

Welcome. Happy Reading

[Karen]

WOW! Congratulations on hitting several marks. :o)