SUSPEK - Murder in Vancouver

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

On the Saturday of the Vancouver International Film Festival's second weekend, the retired senior curator of the Vancouver Art Gallery is found dead at the bottom of her mezzanine stair in a Yaletown live-work studio on Mainland Street, two cordial glasses of Okanagan icewine still on the drafting table. Detective Hartmann takes the case and slides the Bill Reid Foundation's provenance archive across the table. Inside: thousands of first names from two centuries of West Coast donors, lenders, attribution-of-record signatories, and Northwest Coast secondary-market collectors. 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 #02 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.