If you can have just one question answered....

[Cats_are_evil]

I know a lot of people have wondered about who cowl is. Some people wondered who was driving the car that hit Harry. Others have wondered many other things. If you can have one question answered in 12 months what would it be?
For me it's something that I've wondered since Storm Front. Who was the woman that helped Harry in the final battle?

[Mira]

  If murdered, who murdered Malcolm Dresden?  I know about ten more questions follow that.

[Snark Knight]

Yeah, Cowl's identity would be a big one.  Probably at or near the top of my list.

It's hard to tell if that's realistic for the plot of Twelve Months, though.  A gradual-paced meditation on mental healing doesn't seem like a great fit for an Outsider-heavy plot.  I can't really see my other two biggest questions (the deeper objectives of the Denarians and the Black Court) fitting in terribly well here either.  Mirror Mirror is probably a better fit for the really juicy lore drops.

Within the scope of what we know of the plot, the biggest payoff that seems likely would probably be Listens to Wind and his cadre sharing some more details of what starborn actually means.  And, yeah, that's within maybe my top ten mystery box questions, but ultimately, the rough shape has already been sketched on that one.

I suppose some of the bigger issues might be connected to rooting out the rest of the infiltration of the White Court, though, so anything is technically possible.

[Mira]

Another question, how did Margaret and Malcolm meet?  Was it love at first sight? How did he change her attitude?  See here we go again, you cannot ask one question, because it sets up many others.

[g33k]

  If murdered, who murdered Malcolm Dresden?  I know about ten more questions follow that.

My bet is that it was Lea (or maybe Mab) -- he died with a peaceful smile, so it was someone who brought images of Margaret with them.  Mab passed (at least for a while) as human (Ms. Sommerset) to the very-clued-in and very-suspicious Harry Dresden; so we know she can sustain such deceptions for a while.

[g33k]

I know a lot of people have wondered about who cowl is. Some people wondered who was driving the car that hit Harry. Others have wondered many other things. If you can have one question answered in 12 months what would it be? ...

I think my biggest curiosity has to be around the whole "Starborn" thing.

I don't really think 12M is the place where we'll learn that, however.  We know LtW and RS are both potential "tutors" / info-sources, but I think that's too much an outside-Chicago story-arc, when the book is heavily about Harry leaning-into becoming "the Wizard of Chicago" more fully.

I think (I've shared this theory here before) that a huge part of Mab's motivation, in ordering the marriage, is to aim her Starborn Winternight at the  Nemvector  lurking within the White Court.  Papa Raith is known to have amassed a substantive library on the Outsider/Starborn apocalypse-cycle, and I think Harry will get at least some peeks into that (a secondary element in Mab's planning:   she knows of the library, wants her Winterknight better-equipped as an anti-Outsider weapon, and "knowledge is power.") ... I am hoping/expecting we'll learn at least some snippets from an arc on this topic.

I suspect Bonea has a goodly bit of Starborn info... but I think Jim will dribble out the Starborn info slowly (into and throughout the BAT) so we won't get to the "Angelic-level" secrets known to Bonea this soon.  So, Bonnie will still be in "figuring things out" mode, and likely unable to give Harry useful info there.