The Grid of Suspects
Cozy mysteries you solve with a pencil.
Five cold cases. Fifty thousand suspects. One pattern hiding in plain sight. When forensic accountant Madison Aldridge inherits the Willow Creek Inn from her Aunt Harriet, she finds a drawer of five unsolved case files spanning 1947 to 2009 — a killer, a thief, a forger, a hidden heir, and a blackmailer. Every clue is true. Every case has a single provable solution. Solve all five, and the final page reveals the pattern Harriet guarded for sixty years. Grab your pencil and prove you can too.
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Willow Creek, 1955. Five hundred guests signed the reservation book at the Garden Society's annual luncheon. Two of them killed the chairwoman. Eighteen true clues, checkpoint tables to keep your count honest, and two culprits only you can name — the first case file Harriet ever kept, free when you join Maisie's newsletter. Printable, or read it as an ebook.
Maisie Starling
Maisie Starling writes cozy mysteries you solve with a pencil — puzzle casebooks where every clue is true and fifty thousand suspects wait to be crossed out — alongside paranormal cozy mysteries set in small towns where the neighbors are nosy and magic turns up where you'd least expect it. She quilts, embroiders, and writes with a black-and-white cat named Dumpling on her lap, who insists on being part of every project.
The Grid of Suspects
Five cold cases. Fifty thousand suspects. One pattern hiding in plain sight. When forensic accountant Madison Aldridge inherits the Willow Creek Inn from her Aunt Harriet, she finds a drawer of five unsolved case files spanning 1947 to 2009 — a killer, a thief, a forger, a hidden heir, and a blackmailer. Every clue is true. Every case has a single provable solution. Solve all five, and the final page reveals the pattern Harriet guarded for sixty years. Grab your pencil and prove you can too.
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The Pattern Keeper
Madison Aldridge spent thirty years calling her gift fluorescent lighting. Then her aunt's death dropped a failing Victorian inn into her hands, and a food critic turned up dead in the wine cellar. Now her spreadsheet is telling her things her spreadsheet has no business telling her — and the woman she's spent three decades insisting she wasn't is the only one in Willow Creek who can read what the data is actually saying. The first Willow Creek Inn paranormal cozy mystery, coming soon.