SUSPEK - Murder in Ottawa

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

On a Sunday night, the Remembrance Day weekend, at quarter to eleven, the retired Senior Archivist at Library and Archives Canada, Margaret Whitmore-Ashworth, 76, is found dead at her Centretown home on Cooper Street. Detective Hartmann takes the case and lays the federal Order Paper nominal index on the desk. Inside: thousands of first names from two centuries of Hansard pages, Order Paper sponsors, Privy Council signers, Royal Commission witnesses, and federal-employee oath-takers. 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 #05 of the SUSPEK series. Also works as a standalone.

Difficulty: Advanced. The clues form a cascade of near-solutions. Experienced solvers should plan 10 to 30 hours; for fans of layered logic puzzles.

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