Killer Word Games


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Want to Play a Game?As true crime fanatics we've always loved cryptic stories and puzzles that get our brains moving. While there are word games and themed puzzles for everything from science and history to unicorns and curse words, we couldn't find anything focused around the best subject of all: Serial KillersSo we decided to take a stab at making our own. We kicked off the project as part of National Novel Writing Month and got the final tweaks done on the last day of November. It was the first successful completion of NaNoWriMo for each of us, which makes this project even more near and dear.Word puzzle fans and serial killer groupies can come together with this collection of more than 30 crosswords, word searches, word wheels, jumbles and sudoku puzzles with a fiendish theme. From Jack the Ripper and Fritz Haarman to Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy - we have all your infamous favorites and a few more shadowy notables. Get ready to decipher clues, seek out murder weapons and try to figure out who picked cold cuts as his final meal.




Killer Game


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From the author of Undead and Unfed comes a completely gripping, psychological whodunnit that will keep readers guessing to the last page. At Cate’s isolated boarding school, Killer Game is a tradition. Only a select few are invited to play. They must avoid being ‘killed’ by a series of thrilling pranks, and identify the ‘murderer’. But this time, it’s different: the game stops feeling fake and starts getting dangerous—and Cate’s the next target. Can they find the culprit … before it’s too late?




Hunt A Killer: The Detective's Puzzle Book


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Put your crime-solving wits to the test with codes, ciphers, and mind-bending puzzles from the creators of the popular murder mystery subscription box. In Hunt A Killer: The Detective’s Puzzle Book, you’ll meet up with private eye Michelle Gray who needs you to hit the books and fine-tune your investigative skills before the next big murder case. Under her expert guidance, you’ll start with “Investigative Best Practices” before diving into a world of curious ciphers, devious riddles, and other intriguing logic puzzles all designed to take you from amateur sleuth to a top-notch lead detective. With non-narrative puzzles, you can pick up this training manual anytime you need to sharpen your skills, between episodes, or whenever you need a fun challenge. Whether you’re a Hunt A Killer member, armchair detective, or logic puzzle junkie, these deceptively difficult but always fun puzzles will have you breaking codes and cracking Hunt A Killer cases in no time. So pick up a pen, grab your magnifying glass, and get sleuthing.




Killer Words


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"Sam and Nana Jo are back in sleepy North Harbor, Michigan, where Sam is eagerly awaiting the publication of her first book. In search of more Sam and Nana Jo are back in sleepy North Harbor, Michigan, where Sam is eagerly awaiting the publication of her first book. In search of more immediate excitement, Nana Jo hits the casino with her fellow Shady Acres Retirement Village gal pals--but they get more than they bargained for when they witness Detective Bradley Pitt decking mayoral candidate John Cloverton. As Sam well knows, mystery novels are full of brilliant detectives, genius sleuths, and hero cops. Detective Bradley Pitt--aka "Stinky Pitt"--is another story. In the past, the dull-witted detective has mistakenly accused members of Sam's family for crimes they didn't commit. Now, it's his turn: when Cloverton turns up dead, he's arrested. With his predilection for polyester, Pitt has been wanted by the fashion police for years, but Nana Jo knows her former elementary school math student would never commit murder--it doesn't add up. Somebody's framed the flatfoot to take a fall, and Sam and Nana Jo must step in to restore the reputation and good name of Detective Pitt." --




Wacky Word Games


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Using words, rhyme and picture clues, you are the detective as you solve amazing problems. Sound-alike words, rhyming words, different words created from the same letters, words that sound alike but are spelled differently -- they're all here and many more. These brilliant world puzzles and picture clues are fun to solve on your own, with your friends, or the whole family.




Everyman's Word Games


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Mind Games


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Mind Games is the author's journey with the worst offenders incarcerated in the global criminal justice system. It will shock, surprise and astound the reader. Paul Harrison has a unique set of skills and experiences based upon his life in the British police service and later as a crime writer. Now, for the first time in print you can read of his experiences as a profiler dealing with the world's most notorious serial killers and violent offenders. Mind Games is a forensic examination of the psyche of the world's most vicious and evil offenders in their own words, just as they related it. It's an exploration into the darkest recesses of the criminal mind and possibly the most in-depth examination of the serial killer phenomenon ever published.







Brain Games - Criminal Mind Puzzles


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Use your verbal, visual, and logic skills to investigate an array of puzzles! This puzzle collection contains a mix of verbal and visual puzzles themed around crimes and investigation. Read about true crimes and see how you much you can remember Play detective as you find witnesses, use logic to track down criminals, and see what details you can decipher in crime scenes Spiral bound 192 pages




Around the World in Eighty Games


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A “fun” and “unexpected” (The Economist) global tour of the world’s greatest games and the mathematics that underlies them Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors? Spanning millennia, oceans and continents, countries and cultures, Around the World in Eighty Games gleefully explores how mathematics and games have always been deeply intertwined. Renowned mathematician Marcus du Sautoy investigates how games provided the first opportunities for deep mathematical insight into the world, how understanding math can help us play games better, and how both math and games are integral to human psychology and culture. For as long as there have been people, there have been games, and for nearly as long, we have been exploring and discovering mathematics. A grand adventure, Around the World in Eighty Games teaches us not just how games are won, but how they, and their math, shape who we are.