THE ONE . Vol 1- The airport: The Interactive Mystery Case File with 50,000 Suspects - Cross Out, Deduce, Find the Killer

02:47 AM. Los Angeles International Airport.

A woman is dead in the men's restroom of the VIP lounge.

How long would YOU need to find her killer in a crowd of fifty thousand passengers?

An hour? A day? A week?

You have exactly the length of a flight.

Could you do what Sherlock Holmes's great-granddaughter does?

Could you cross out a name when nothing - yet - proves it innocent?

Could you read fifty thousand first names without skipping a single one?

Could you spot the palindrome on page 95? The aviation pioneer on the facing page? The maiden name whispered between two passports?

Could you trust your own eyes when seventeen clues have eliminated everyone - except two suspects who seem identical?

Are you smart enough to find the EIGHTEENTH clue?

Because there is one.

And it is not written in this book.

You will have to find it yourself.

With nothing but a pen, your eyes, and the file in your hands.

This is not a novel. This is a case file.

You will not read this book the way you read a thriller. You will work it.

One hundred and ninety dense pages. Fifty thousand suspects packed corner to corner. Seventeen clues written like a detective's evidence log - typographic, geographic, semantic. And one phantom clue, the eighteenth, that only your deduction can reconstruct.

At the end, you will hold a single name in your hands. A first name. Six letters. Yours.

What if you are wrong?

Send your verdict directly to the author. One word - the suspect's first name. You will know within forty-eight hours:

Did you solve the case? Or did the killer just board the flight while you turned the wrong page?

SCROLL LESS. CROSS OUT MORE.

INSIDE THIS FILE:

- 50,000 suspects across 190 densely typeset pages
- 17 written clues + 1 phantom clue you reconstruct alone
- Detective Rebecca Holmes, Sherlock's great-granddaughter, your guide
- A Hitchcock cameo: the author appears in the suspect list. Always eliminated. Will you find where?
- Personal email reply from the author within 48 hours of your verdict

WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR?

For anyone who has ever guessed the killer halfway through a thriller and felt cheated. For escape-room obsessives and crossword champions. For Agatha Christie readers who want to sit on the other side of the desk. For people who think they are smarter than the average detective.

Are you?

Format: 6 × 9 inches - 204 pages - paperback - pen recommended.

The Killer Files - Volume I.
A new collection of interactive thrillers where every reader becomes the investigator.