Killer in a Haystack: Hunt for the Hideout

Amanda Lynn Raynofsky—or, as she’s better known to the readers of the Cozy Cove Courier, reporter Mandalynne Rayne—is innocent. At least that’s what she tells her mother, the town sheriff, as she’s put under house arrest for the murder of city clerk Sharon Burke. Amanda swears she didn’t do it, but the facts are incriminating: The city clerk is dead, and Amanda was found at the scene of the crime. Someone among the 10,000 residents of Cozy Cove committed this murder…but who? Locked in Town Hall, armed with the murderer’s notebook of puzzles, and surrounded by boxes full of citizen registry records, Mandalynne must clear her name by finding the killer before it’s too late. 

Follow the story from the inside as you solve the killer’s puzzles, sort through boxes of names, and examine a scrapbook of newspaper clippings to piece together the information you need. Each puzzle unlocks a new set of rules to eliminate names, revealed by solving cryptoquotes, word ladders, crosswords, anagrams, acrostics, sudoku, and more, with one suspect to track down in each chapter. Somewhere in these boxes is proof of Amanda’s innocence: Can you find it?