SUSPEK - The Christmas Casebook

3 cases. 47,000 first names each. 17 clues each. 3 killers.

The SUSPEK Christmas Casebook gathers three complete Christmas cases in one volume. Three snowbound towns, three victims, three name lists, and Detective Hartmann needs you on every one of them.

The three cases

• Aspen: On the Thursday before Christmas, while the carols play at the Wheeler Opera House, the festival's recording engineer is strangled in the tape vault directly under the stage.
• Lake Tahoe: On the Friday before Christmas, the lead of the lake's clarity program is found drowned at the edge of the boathouse dock at the Homewood pier, her red wool cap floating in the black water.
• Park City: On Christmas morning a snowcat groomer finds the chief of timing on the floor of the Utah Olympic Park timing hut, and only two sets of fresh prints cross the new snow to the door.

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

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 of each case, one name remains.

What you are getting into

• Three logic puzzles, each with 47,000 possible answers and one correct one
• 17 clues per case that bring you step by step closer to the killer
• Three closed crime cases to solve yourself
• Deduction, logic, and the real feel of a detective

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.

Difficulty: Advanced. The clues form a cascade of near-solutions. Experienced solvers should plan 10 to 30 hours per case.

A fitting Christmas gift for puzzle-mystery solvers, fans of investigative fiction, and anyone planning to spend the holidays with a pencil and a highlighter.

Open the casebook. Find all three killers.