SUSPEK - Murder in Toronto

47,000 first names. 17 clues. 1 killer.

On Thanksgiving Sunday, the retired head of the Toronto Reference Library's Special Collections is found dead at the foot of her parlour steps at 89 Sorauren Avenue in Roncesvalles, two cordial glasses of vintage port still on the writing-desk. Detective Hartmann takes the case and slides the Toronto Public Library Foundation's circulation-and-donor register across the table. Inside: thousands of first names from two centuries of Special Collections borrowers, donors, and Yorkville-era subscribers. One of them belongs to the killer.

SUSPEK is not a crime novel you simply read. It is a case you solve yourself.

Read the clues, cross out the innocent, and find the killer before the trail goes cold.

SUSPEK is puzzle-crime on paper. Reading, puzzling, thinking, no screen, no app. You sit at the table with the book, cross out names, compare lists, and follow every trace. At the end, one name remains.

What you are getting into

• A logic puzzle with 47,000 possible answers and one correct one
• 17 clues that bring you step by step closer to the killer
• A closed crime case to solve yourself
• Deduction, logic, and the real feel of a detective
• Puzzle pleasure as a series

For everyone who has finished Murdle. For everyone who already knows if Alice is a killer. And for everyone who does not want to merely watch while somebody else solves the case.

An interactive crime puzzle in which the reader becomes the detective. Perfect for travel, vacation, and quiet evenings.

Case #01 of the SUSPEK series. Also works as a standalone.

Difficulty: Beginner. The clues are direct and lead you step by step through the case.

Every volume is a standalone case. New city. New victim. New name list. New perpetrator, hidden among thousands of ordinary identities.

Help Detective Hartmann in his other cases as well. A fitting gift for puzzle-mystery solvers, fans of investigative fiction, and anyone planning to spend the next weekend with a pencil and a highlighter.

Open the book. Find the killer.