The 2021 Mystery Genre Bingo challenge is new! In the past, I participated in a Genre Bingo reading challenge in a group on Goodreads (2018, 2019, and 2020). The idea was to create a bingo card with a variety of genres and make as many “bingos” as you wanted for the challenge.

I love mysteries, so I thought I would make a bingo card that focused on mysteries and thrillers. While I have enjoyed the variety of genres in the past, this year I want to focus on reading mysteries. By altering the challenge a little, I get the fun of bingo and read lots of mysteries.

The 2021 Mystery Genre Bingo challenge has 25 prompts. I like a challenge, so I hope to read a book for each prompt.

To make a bingo card, visit the Bingo Card Generator. Enter the following information:

• Card Title: 2021 Mystery Genre Bingo
• Word List: Amateur Sleuth, Caper, Cozy Mystery, Detective, Domestic Suspense, Golden Age Mystery, Historical Mystery, Hardboiled, Legal Thriller, Locked Room Mystery, Medical Thriller, Middle Grade Mystery, Murder Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Noir, Paranormal Mystery, Police Procedural, Political Thriller, Private Investigator, Psychological Thriller, Romantic Suspense, Spy Thriller, Techno Thriller, True Crime, Young Adult Mystery, Whodunit
• Free Space: Yes
• Free Space Text: Any Mystery
• Free Space Description: “leave blank”
• Free Space Placement: Center
• Card Size: 5 x 5
• Number of cards to create: 1
• Click “Generate Bingo Cards”

MY BINGO CARD

PROMPTS

1. Mystery Thriller – Not One of Us by Debbie Hebert
2. Caper –
3. Murder Mystery –
4. Golden Age Mystery –
5. Whodunit –
6. Amateur Sleuth – Swamp Santa by Jana Deleon
7. Political Thriller –
8. Domestic Suspense – The Shadow Box by Luanne Rice
9. Historical Mystery – After Alice Fell by Kim Taylor Blakemore
10. Young Adult Mystery –
11. Medical Thriller –
12. Private Investigator –
13. Any Mystery – The Other Mothers by M.M. Chouinard
14. Police Procedural –
15. Detective – NYPD6 by James Patterson
16. Middle Grade Mystery –
17. Legal Thriller – Muzzled by David Rosenfelt
18. Techno Thriller –
19. Noir –
20. Locked Room mystery – One by One by Ruth Ware
21. True Crime –
22. Romantic Suspense –
23. Psychological Thriller – The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard
24. Paranormal Mystery – The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor
25. Cozy Mystery – Christmas Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke