Description

The coroner’s office has a backlog. One hundred homicide cases, every one investigated and closed, every killer caught. The victims were never identified.

Someone has to go back through the files and see what can still be done. The suspects, weapons, locations, motives and alibis are all there. And a few of the files have details that don’t quite add up.

This is a word search where the words solve the case:

100 murder cases, one page each, every one self-contained
One grid and 27 words per case, in five groups: suspects, weapons, locations, motives and alibis
The word you find twice is the answer: killer, weapon, location and motive, all hiding in plain sight
One alibi on every list is a lie: it belongs to the killer, it isn’t in the grid at all, and ruling out the rest exposes it
A hidden victim in every grid, crossing the murder weapon, with a blank that tells you how many letters to find
A hidden message dealt across all 100 cases, letter by letter, that can only be solved once the last case is closed
Difficulty 3 of 4: a bigger grid, more words per case, more to solve, and words running in every direction
Full solutions included at the back of the book

For anyone who likes a murder mystery they solve themselves, in the time it takes to drink a coffee. For word search solvers who want the words to mean something once they’re found. If you’ve closed the earlier books, this one digs deeper. If you haven’t, no matter: every book stands alone.

The files are on your desk now. A hundred killers, already caught. A hundred cases, closed. Something in them still doesn’t add up.