Can You Solve the Murder?: An Interactive Crime Novel

"Follow leads, find clues, and interrogate suspects in this intricately crafted page-turner! Will you make the right calls and catch the culprit, or will they slip through your fingers?" --G. T. Karber, author of Murdle

One murder. Six suspects. One truth for YOU to uncover.

YOU are the lead detective and it's your job to investigate the most mysterious crime of your career.

There's been a murder at Elysium, a wellness retreat set in an English country manor. You arrive to find the body of a local businessman on the lawn - with a rose placed in his mouth. It appears he was stabbed with a gardening fork and fell to his death from the balcony above. You quickly realize that balcony can only be accessed through a locked door, the key is missing, and everyone in Elysium is now a suspect... Who did it and why? It's up to you to figure it out.

YOU gather the evidence and examine the clues.

YOU choose who to interview next, and who to accuse as your prime suspect.

But remember that every decision YOU make has consequences - and some of them will prove fatal...

Do you have what it takes? Can YOU solve the murder? Put your sleuthing skills to the test!

Author: Antony Johnston
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 07/01/2025
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780143138884
ISBN10: 014313888X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Police Procedural
- Fiction | LitRPG (Literary Role-Playing Game)

About the Author
Antony Johnston is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of more than fifty books, graphic novels, and comic series, including the popular Dog Sitter Detective murder mysteries. His graphic novel The Coldest City was made into the multi-million-dollar blockbuster movie Atomic Blonde. He is also a celebrated videogames writer, and is credited with many franchise-defining titles. Johnston is a former vice chair of the Crime Writers' Association, a member of International Thriller Writers and the Society of Authors, a Shore Scripts screenwriting judge, and sits on the Writers' Guild of Great Britain's videogames committee. He lives and works in England.