SUSPEK - Murder in Park City

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

On Christmas Eve in Park City, the torchlight run winds down Lower Doc's Run to cocoa and carols at Canyons Village. When the last torch hisses out, the chief of timing at the Utah Olympic Park sliding track walks back up through the falling snow to close the day's logs in the timing hut. At first light on Christmas morning a snowcat groomer finds her on the floor, and only two sets of fresh prints cross the new snow to the door. Detective Hartmann takes the case and slides the competitor register across the desk. Inside: forty-seven thousand first names, every athlete, coach and forerunner she cleared to the start block in eleven seasons, with the old racing-club rolls bound in at the back. 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.