SUSPEK - Murder in Aspen

47,000 first names. 17 clues. 1 killer. On the Thursday before Christmas, Aspen is deep in snow. White lights glow in the bare trees along Hyman Avenue, the holiday skiers crowd the J-Bar, and the Wheeler Opera House is full for the winter festival's Christmas concert. While the carols play straight through the second half, the festival's recording engineer is strangled in the tape vault directly under the stage, a reel with a blank label under his hand. Detective Hartmann takes the case and slides the player index across the table. Inside: forty-seven thousand first names, every musician, chorister and guest conductor who has played the Wheeler for the festival since its first season. 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.