THE KILLER IS CELIA
SHE WALKED FREE. HE DIDN'T.
A murder mystery logic puzzle for adults on a scale no grid can hold: 40,547 city records, 17 clues, and one city where she is living right now.
THE CASE
Three years ago they stood trial together for the murder of the woman he chose over her. Clue by clue, she turned herself into a survivor and him into a killer. The world wept for her, campaigned for her, called it justice.
Then the evidence cracked. She had forged all of it.
She is gone. He is still in a cell for a murder he did not commit. And the only thing she left behind is this ledger: 40,547 cities, towns and ports, copied out in her own hand.
One woman is hiding in these pages. One man is waiting for you to find her.
HOW THE HUNT WORKS
Seventeen clues survived. Sixteen are printed inside. Every one is true. Every one clears the innocent — until exactly one city is left standing.
Work the 208-page register with a pencil, striking out cities clue by clue: by the letters in their names, by where they sit on the page, by the company they keep. Pure elimination, no guessing. No trivia, no riddles, no outside knowledge.
No app. No subscription. No answer key hidden in the back.
The seventeenth clue was never allowed into print. When the sixteen have done their work, the last one is waiting at the final clue.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- 40,547 city records across twenty chapters
- 16 printed clues, from letter-logic to map-logic to page-logic
- The evidence file: the postcards, the burned safehouses, the 4:07 a.m. sighting
- Reference lists at the back, so every clue can be checked without a phone
- 222 pages, 6 × 9 inches — weeks of elimination, one city at the end
WHO IT'S FOR
Anyone who has ever shouted at a true-crime documentary. Solvers who have run out of logic puzzle books for adults and want a bigger board. Fans of deduction games, whodunit puzzles and brain teaser puzzles for adults who want one case worth weeks instead of one worth an afternoon.
Readers who like their mysteries dark in premise and clean on the page: there is no gore here, only patience and deduction.
Hours of screen-free solving. Work it alone with a pencil, or turn it loose on a group. It makes a wicked gift for book lovers and for the person who finishes every puzzle you give them.
GET THE BOOK
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