Puzzle Mystery

In the quaint village of Bearstone, Leonor, a former mercenary with a bounty on her head, is hiding under the guise of an innkeeper. She leads a life as unassuming as her inn, until a winter storm brings an unexpected influx of travelers and with them, a dark secret. When a snobbish mage is found murdered in her best room, Leonor's past skills are unwittingly summoned back to life. With the road to the city snowed and help days away, she must navigate through a web of village gossip, ancient secrets, and unexpected alliances. As she delves deeper, she discovers that the key to solving the ...

William Benson knows what it's like to be accused of something you didn't do - the fear, the vulnerability and the nightmare of watching your life unravel. Now he speaks on behalf of those who have no voice, defending anyone who claims to be innocent. This time, it's Karmen Naylor, estranged daughter of a south London crime boss, fighting a murder charge and desperate to be believed. But Benson becomes trapped into a grudge match between two rival clans, endangering himself and those he loves.

It's Christmas eve at 221B Baker Street. On the stroke of midnight, a delivery arrives addressed to Sherlock Holmes. The message is a cryptogram which reveals itself to be so obtuse that it has the famous consulting detective baffled. Holmes becomes so obsessed with revealing the secret of the cypher that Watson fears for his well-being in refusing to eat or sleep. Holmes can only deduce that time is of the essence, and that a means of deciphering must be discovered which has never before been employed. Watson wonders what new adventure will emerge, should the puzzle be unraveled.

When William stumbles upon an ancient map in his grandfather’s attic, he never expects it to lead to a legendary mystery treasure hidden deep beneath the city. With the help of his best friend, Kimberly, and his loyal dog, Rex, he sets off on an unforgettable journey, navigating through underground labyrinths, decoding mystery word puzzle books, and solving logic puzzles that hold the key to a forgotten past.

When acclaimed literary critic Dr Eleanor Croft finds herself framed for the murder of a celebrated, arrogant poet, her meticulously ordered world shatters. With a relentless detective's deadline ticking down, Eleanor must embark on a perilous intellectual scavenger hunt through Cambridge's ancient secrets. The victim's cryptic clues, hidden within forgotten manuscripts and centuries-old mechanisms, lead her to the heart of the shadowy Pelican Society – a clandestine organization with a terrifying legacy of influence and a ruthless willingness to silence those who threaten its power. As ...

Top model Violet Feverel should be a pretty picture riding the big red thoroughbred Siwash - but the front page photo on the tabloids is ugly as death. The police dub the tragedy an unfortunate accident. But Miss Hildegarde Withers, who stumbled across the girl's body on the Central Park bridle path, knows they are, unfortunately, wrong. Just plain horse sense tells her it was murder....

Are you a Law & Order or CSI crime junkie? In these You Solve It mini mysteries, you get to be the lead detective who takes on the case. You will read the case file, collect the evidence and solve the crime. Become an iDetective.

“I don’t want to die,” said the man in the brown suit, who was the last passenger to board the little airplane, but he did. The other passengers thought he was just airsick and the pilots of the Dragonfly assumed it was a heart attack, but when they landed on Catalina Island where Miss Hildegarde Withers was enjoying her first vacation in five years, they bowed to her insistence that the body be examined by the island doctor as well as the chief of police.

Bell Casper is running a stealthy game in the Blue Parrot, a swanky bar in Manhattan catering to wealthy pleasure seekers. The game seems shady, and maybe it is. Leticia pretends to be his assistant. She's twenty-four and Bell's twenty-seven. Their relationship isn’t clear. Gigi is a pretty blonde, twenty-five years old. She also works out of the bar, running her own racket. She's attracted to Bell, but she can't understand why Bell and Leticia are together, or what his game is all about. She's determined to unravel both mysteries.

Agosto del 2016. México llora la muerte de su máximo ídolo, El Divo. Pero tras la congoja masiva, se descubre otro hecho: han sustraído un cuadro, propiedad del cantante y parte del patrimonio cultural del país: La Doña, el retrato que Diego Rivera hiciera de una célebre actriz. Y esto desata un alud de vertiginosos hechos. El novato detective Peter Endejo, ser de apariencia casi risible, queda a cargo de la investigación. Y deberá atar cabos entre personajes de nombres arquetípicos, pero a los que el autor dota de arrolladora personalidad individual.

Hildegarde Withers heads down Mexico way where the death in the afternoon involves neither a matador nor a bull. Inspector Oscar Piper is off on a junket to Mexico in the summer of 1937 (surrounded by a bunch of Democrats, huffed Miss Withers) when a customs inspector on a train headed for Mexico City sniffs a very potent bottle of cheap perfume and promptly drops dead. Quite naturally, Oscar telegraphs Hildegarde in Manhattan about the perfume and quite naturally Miss Withers packs her bags and heads south of the border, figuring Oscar is out of his depth if he has to rely on deductive reasoning rather than a rubber hose.

James is crime scene photographer with no life outside of work to speak of. One day, while sifting through old files, he finds a crime scene photo of a beautiful woman...and immediately falls in love with the picture. He then begins to research the woman's death as her crime was an unsolved mystery. Soon, he begins to see apparitions of the woman as she leads him on with clues to solve her murder. Is she a figment of his imagination, or is she his perfect vision coming to life?

The Immune Mystery follows doctor and researcher Anita Kåss' quest to solve the autoimmune puzzle, beginning with the premature death of her mother, who developed rheumatoid arthritis shortly after giving birth to Anita. As a child, Anita vowed to study the illness and one day find a cure. Becoming a respected doctor and researcher, Anita devoted herself to studying autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and multiple sclerosis. A compelling blend of incredible determination and cutting-edge science, this book changes the way we think about autoimmune diseases.

A collection of mostly Whodunnits. Can you solve the mysteries? Plus a couple of others just for fun.

[This revised edition addresses feedback from readers!] Can a young widow clear her name and save her hometown's livelihood when its beloved wine festival turns deadly? When the annual Winter Wine Festival in charming small-town Los Robles comes to a shocking halt with the discovery of a dead body, amateur sleuth Avery Parker finds herself thrust into a twisted murder mystery. Having recently returned to run her family’s vineyard after her husband’s untimely death, Avery must navigate complex small-town social politics and quirky characters to uncover clues, clear her own name, and ...

An unputdownable whodunit mystery by LJ Bourne. A small town is shaken by the sudden death of the local butcher who fell to his death during a hike. While it may seem like an accident, the victim's mother believes it to be murder. Committed by a member of the Army. US Military Special Investigator Mark Novak is charged with solving the case. That task would be much easier if Mark still trusted his detective instincts and intuition. And working alongside an old flame, Mark soon finds himself faced with more questions than answers. Does Mark still have it in him to solve this case? Or will ...

When her daughter’s life is at stake, there’s no one quite like our R.E.D. heroine! Following an unexpected lead Celia may have been sold by traffickers to someone in Africa three years ago, Daisy, Aidan and Sarah head for Uganda. They’ve only been in the country a few minutes when a mysterious dying man thrusts a note into Daisy’s hand. As he gasps his last breath, he begs her not to involve the police. Now there isn’t just one, but two mysteries to be solved. The extra mystery deepens as three different people confess to a murder that took place many years ago. But there’s a ...

Crusty schoolteacher/sleuth Hildegarde Withers can't escape mysterious deaths, even on a trans-Atlantic crossing on an ocean liner. En route to England she spends part of her time (when not feeling queasy) sizing up her fellow passengers. Her intuition helps when passengers and crew start dropping over the side, or just dropping, period.

"قال ( تختخ ) و على وجهه سمات الجد و الخطورة :لقد تحركت عصابة كلب البحر أسرع مما توقعت بكثير.

With a secret code in a silk scarf and her dog Max, Pennie Pleat endeavors to find a murderer and a thief. Seamstress Pennie Pleat stumbles upon a mystery when she becomes enamored with strange stitches in an antique silk scarf belonging to Millicent "Milly" Fairfax. The mystery deepens when Pennie finds Milly dead in her home. The scarf’s cryptic code, stitched in dots and dashes, hints at a decades-old art theft and a suspicious death from Milly’s past. With her loyal dog, Max, by her side, Pennie follows a tangled thread of clues through the world of Milly’s former acquaintances: ...