SUSPEK - Murder in Chicago

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

On a Thursday night the first week of the Christkindlmarket, at 9:42 PM, the retired deputy director of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, Eleanor Petrov, 74, is found dead at her Lincoln Park home at 2147 N. Cleveland Avenue. Detective Hartmann takes the case and slides the Chicago Loft Building Photographic Survey across the table. Inside: thousands of first names from a century of Loop preservation consultants, Inland Architect contributors, and Commission witnesses. 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 #06 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.

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.