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Listen for the Lie

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Listen for the Lie
Book
Lucy cannot remember the night her friend Savvy died, but people in her hometown think they already know what happened. Podcast interviews give each source room to repeat a familiar version or change it. Read the transcripts alongside Lucy’s own account and track who is protecting a reputation.
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The Supernatural Enhancements

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The Supernatural Enhancements
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A. inherits a mansion with a suspicious history and goes there with Niamh. Journals, letters, camera records, and ciphers let them reconstruct the meetings that happened there. Notice what each medium can reveal, because a camera and a handwritten code give you different ways to understand the same house.
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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
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An artist’s manuscript lays out an explanation for a series of crimes long before two men take up the cold case. The handwritten plan gives readers clues and a theory they should test, even when a striking detail seems to fit. Choose this for a puzzle that expects you to challenge a document from the start.
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The Night Swim

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The Night Swim
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Rachel Krall comes to town to cover a trial but starts receiving letters about a death from years before. Follow the shifts between the podcast material and the letter writer’s account. One story has testimony on the public record while the other depends on what someone finally decides to put in writing.
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Night Film

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Night Film
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A journalist investigating Ashley Cordova’s death follows a trail of articles, photographs, and pages from the web. Those fragments show what the director’s followers believe alongside what the reporter can establish. Read the printed artifacts as clues because some information never enters the main narrative directly.
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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
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Pip’s school project reopens a case her town considers settled. Her production log, interview transcripts, and lists of possibilities let you check which claims she has actually tested. Start here if you want a quick sample of how a mystery can invite the reader to do some of the organizing.
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The Moonstone

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The Moonstone
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A diamond vanishes, and witnesses reconstruct events in written accounts long after the night it happened. The same person can look guilty in one statement and perplexed in another. The investigators’ biggest advantage is reading the reports together, so give each narrator’s knowledge and blind spots equal attention.
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The Killer Question

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The Killer Question
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A pub quiz has revived a small business until somebody turns up dead nearby. The quiz material looks like harmless local color, but together with the emails and phone messages it shows who knew one another and how long they have been in contact. Choose this if you like evidence disguised as a routine social activity.
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Illuminae

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Illuminae
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After an attack on a mining colony, the story reaches you as hacked messages, military records, interviews, and medical reports. Keep track of which source can see events on which ship. Pick this if you want the evidence puzzle inside a fast-moving space thriller, with the page design doing part of the work.
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Trust

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Trust
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A novel, an unfinished autobiography, a memoir, and a private notebook tell different versions of a fortune and the marriage behind it. Pick this for a literary mystery where deciding what counts as evidence changes whom you credit for what happened. The later documents give details that make the earlier ones worth reading again.
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