Seventy autumn nights. Nine hundred and forty-seven suspects. One name each that nothing can clear.
When the fog turns to October in Hollow County, every porch sets out a grinning lantern and every hill lights a bonfire. Folks call these the Hollow Nights. A seance that ends in a scream. A bell that tolls with no hand on the rope. A crowd watching a straw man burn - while murder is done behind it.
The old sheriff never believed a word of the ghost stories. He found a mortal hand every time.
THIS IS NOT AN ORDINARY WORD SEARCH. Every case gives you a scene, a list of suspects, and a handful of clues. Each clue describes one hidden word. Find that word in the grid, and every suspect name it touches is cleared - they have an alibi. Cross them off.
When one name is left standing, you have your killer.
INSIDE THIS CASEBOOK • 70 complete cases, each solvable on its own • 947 suspects - and no name appears twice in the entire book • Four rising 12x12 grids up to 16x16, four directions up to eight • Decoys, near-misses and traps that sharpen as the nights draw in • A hint for every single clue, printed upside-down at the back • Full solutions • A county map to track your manhunt, night by night
AND ONE MORE THING Keep every killer's name as you close each night. All seventy of them. There is a reason the sheriff filed these cases in the order he did - and the last page of this book is where he finally admits it.
Book Three of the Hollow County Casebooks. Reads perfectly on its own.