SUSPEK - Murder in Aspen

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

On the Thursday before Christmas, Aspen is deep in snow. White lights glow in the bare trees along Hyman Avenue, the holiday skiers crowd the J-Bar, and the Wheeler Opera House is full for the winter festival's Christmas concert. While the carols play straight through the second half, the festival's recording engineer is strangled in the tape vault directly under the stage, a reel with a blank label under his hand. Detective Hartmann takes the case and slides the player index across the table. Inside: forty-seven thousand first names, every musician, chorister and guest conductor who has played the Wheeler for the festival since its first season. 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.

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.

Help Detective 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 holidays with a pencil and a highlighter.

Open the book. Find the killer.