SUSPEK - Murder in Aberdeen

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

Advent in Aberdeen, and an easterly gale has shut the harbour for the night. The supply ships lie off the port with their lights on, waiting to come in for Christmas. At the harbour mouth, on the gallery of the old watch house, Morag Leask, 58, reads the Greetings Log aloud to the dark: forty-five Christmases of messages between ships and homes, kept since the coast station closed. Before midnight a linesman finds her on the granite below, with the marks of two hands on her arms. Inspector Hartmann takes the case and lays the Log on the table. Inside: forty-seven thousand first names, every child and seafarer who ever sent a Christmas greeting across that water. 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 merely to watch while somebody else solves the case.

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

The Christmas edition 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 lovers 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.

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

Open the book. Find the killer.