No puzzle solutions will be provided in this ebook.
If you demand solutions, go to https://www.facebook.com/KonrathPuzzleSeries and beg for help.
If you have solved all the puzzles, and read everything on the websites (yes, there are two websites), and you want a bit of closure, the next section contains an explanation for how this all began.
If you read this without solving all the puzzles and watching all the videos and reading all of the previous content, it will ruin the ending to this series.
In a series full of spoiler alerts, this is the ultimate SPOILER ALERT!
You have been warned.
SPOILER ALERT!
This following was found in Joe Konrath’s junk mail folder, marked as unread.
From: Karl Fischendorffer
To: JA Konrath
Subject: Fan letter and humble request
11/28/2007 2:37am
Dear Mr. Konrath,
I’ve read your first three novels in the Jack Daniels series, and I am a HUGE fan. The way you weave character and plot together, and make it both scary AND funny, is remarkable.
I know a little bit about how violence at a young age can make a person violent when they grow up. So the books hit a little too close to home for me. I don’t mind, because I know art is supposed to make you uncomfortable. But sometimes your work makes me too uncomfortable, if you know what I mean!
I read your blog regularly, and I’ve learned a lot about the publishing industry. I hope it’s not too forward of me, but I’ve attached a first draft of a novel I’m writing. It isn’t based in reality, like your work. This is more like fantastical-slash-horror-slash-science fiction. Think Men In Black meets The Omen meets Three’s Company.
You know that the government reads minds, right? There is a whole branch of the armed services devoted to it.
In my book, called “FALLEN ANGEL”, a rouge CIA psychic has been kicked out of Project Star Gate for reading the President’s mind, and while he’s on vacation in Haiti he does a remote viewing (using ESP to sense an unseen target) and accidentally reads the mind of Satan.
I hope it’s not forward of me to ask, but I’d love to get a quote from you (I think it’s called a “blurb”) and to be introduced to your agent.
I know this book will be a huge bestseller, and will make a great Hollywood movie.
I know very little about how this business works, Mr. Konrath. I’d really like for you to mentor me.
I’ve never had anyone look out for me before.
Sincerely,
Karl
P.S. What do you think about this new electronic reader device that Amazon just released? I think it’s called a Kindle. I’m betting it will flop. I just can’t imagine a world where people read books on electronic devices…
NOTE FROM JOE
Karl Fischendorffer, aka Unknown Sender, remains at large.
After breaking into my house, the police finally intervened after blowing me off for weeks, and there are now warrants for this asshole. Murder warrants, due to the bodies in his attic.
After I learned his name, I checked my computer for any reference to him to see if he’d ever contacted me, and I was surprised to find something.
It was in my spam folder. Unopened. Never read.
Now that I have read it, I’m as confused as ever.
I guess Karl somehow thought my horror novel, Origin, was based on his idea, because they both involve secret government agencies and Satan.
This is ridiculous, for the following reasons.
I never even saw his email.
My book ORIGIN is nothing at all like the book that US describes.
I wrote ORIGIN in 1998, nine years before this email.
I just read the attached “Fallen Angel” document. It’s only 38 pages long, and absolutely terrible.
So I was targeted by a psychopath for stealing an awful story that I never read.
Sounds like the plot of some crazy book, doesn’t it?
Joe Konrath
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I had a lot of help putting this one together. It’s worth taking the time to thank everybody.
First, my wife Maria and son Talon were indispensable. Not only with trying out puzzles, but for putting up with me for weeks as I hit them with brain teaser after brain teaser, trying to find the ones that worked best. Talon also did all of the video editing, and he and Dante Peinado were my crew for shooting all of the movie footage. Dante also appeared as Unknown Sender in several scenes. I’ll let the readers guess who played US the rest of the time.
The puzzles took a lot of work, and Latham Conger III helped out a tremendous amount. A lot of his devious mind is in this book. Also, Latham and I both drew on the tremendous collection of public domain puzzles available on the world wide web. There’s a lot of fun stuff out there, if you look for it.
Chris Klimas and Joel Haddock did Unknown Sender’s website, using a program called Twine that Chris created. If this ebook sparked your imagination to try something similar, hire them at http://unmappedpath.com.
Thanks as always to Rob Siders for the book design (www.52novels.com), Chereese Graves (http://grammar-rulesatoz.blogspot.com) for the proofing, and Carl Graves (www.extendedimagery.com) for the cover art. These guys make everything I do look and read a lot better.
I also had over fifty beta readers volunteer to test drive an early version of this. I’m grateful to them all for giving it a try, and the ones who got back to me quickly with notes and comments deserve to be thanked by name:
Beth Aaron, Christine Bock, John Donald Carlucci, Cara Colyott, Brandee Crisp, Jamie DeBree, Terri Dukes, Amanda Forrest, Teri Fuhrman, Ken Hattaway, S. Alexander Hicks, Megan Jarrett, Matt Linss, Louise Miller, Joe Mulak, Laura MT, Cathy Neumueller, Ann Voss Peterson, G. J. Phoenix, Jill Selkowitz, Ashley Smith, Rita Smith, Mary Stella, and Dawn Williams.
If I missed you, I either didn’t get your notes, or I left you out because I’m old and losing my mind. Shoot me an email and I’ll fix it.
Most of all, thanks to you, the reader, for trying something different from me, or trying something new even though you’ve never heard of me.
If you liked this, please spread the word. If the STOP A MURDER series does well, I’ll write more of them. I’d be foolish not to.
Thanks for reading!
Joe Konrath
JOE KONRATH’S
COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY
JACK DANIELS THRILLERS
WHISKEY SOUR
BLOODY MARY
RUSTY NAIL
DIRTY MARTINI
FUZZY NAVEL
CHERRY BOMB
SHAKEN
STIRRED with Blake Crouch
RUM RUNNER
LAST CALL
SHOT OF TEQUILA
BANANA HAMMOCK
WHITE RUSSIAN
OLD FASHIONED
SERIAL KILLERS UNCUT with Blake Crouch
LADY 52 with Jude Hardin
65 PROOF short story collection
FLOATERS short with Henry Perez
BURNERS short with Henry Perez
SUCKERS short with Jeff Strand
JACKED UP! short with Tracy Sharp
STRAIGHT UP short with Iain Rob Wright
CHEESE WRESTLING short with Bernard Schaffer
ABDUCTIONS short with Garth Perry
BEAT DOWN short with Garth Perry
BABYSITTING MONEY short with Ken Lindsey
OCTOBER DARK short with Joshua Simcox
RACKED short with Jude Hardin
BABE ON BOARD short with Ann Voss Peterson
WATCHED TOO LONG short with Ann Voss Peterson
PHINEAS TROUTT THRILLERS
DEAD ON MY FEET
DYING BREATH
EVERYBODY DIES
STOP A MURDER PUZZLE BOOKS
STOP A MURDER – HOW: PUZZLES 1 – 12
STOP A MURDER – WHERE: PUZZLES 13 – 24
STOP A MURDER – WHY: PUZZLES 25 – 36
STOP A MURDER – WHO: PUZZLES 37 – 48
STOP A MURDER – WHEN: PUZZLES 49 – 60
CODENAME: CHANDLER SERIES
EXPOSED with Ann Voss Peterson
HIT with Ann Voss Peterson
NAUGHTY with Ann Voss Peterson
FLEE with Ann Voss Peterson
SPREE with Ann Voss Peterson
THREE with Ann Voss Peterson
FIX with F. Paul Wilson and Ann Voss Peterson
RESCUE
THE HORROR COLLECTIVE
ORIGIN
THE LIST
DISTURB
AFRAID
TRAPPED
ENDURANCE
HAUNTED HOUSE
WEBCAM
DRACULAS with Blake Crouch, Jeff Strand, and F. Paul Wilson
HOLES IN THE GROUND with Iain Rob Wright
THE GREYS
SECOND COMING
THE NINE
GRANDMA? with Talon Konrath
WILD NIGHT IS CALLING short with Ann Voss Peterson
CLOSE YOUR EYES
FOUND FOOTAGE
TIMECASTER SERIES
TIMECASTER
TIMECASTER SUPERSYMMETRY
TIMECASTER STEAMPUNK
BYTER
EROTICA
(WRITING AS MELINDA DUCHAMP)
FIFTY SHADES OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND
FIFTY SHADES OF ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
FIFTY SHADES OF ALICE AT THE HELLFIRE CLUB
WANT IT BAD
FIFTY SHADES OF JEZEBEL AND THE BEANSTALK
FIFTY SHADES OF PUSS IN BOOTS
FIFTY SHADES OF GOLDILOCKS
THE SEXPERTS – FIFTY GRADES OF SHAY
THE SEXPERTS – THE GIRL WITH THE PEARL NECKLACE
THE SEXPERTS – LOVING THE ALIEN
THE SEVEN YEAR WITCH
CHERRY BOMB
At the end of FUZZY NAVEL, J. A. Konrath surprised readers with an agonizing cliffhanger: One of Lieutenant Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels’s loved ones is dead. But who? Readers were left clamoring to know more.
CHERRY BOMB, the sixth Jack Daniels mystery, opens at the funeral. While Jack stands graveside, tears in her eyes, her cell phone rings. It’s the killer, escaped maniac Alex Kork, taunting Jack, drawing her ever further into a twisted game of cat and mouse. Because while Alex is more than willing to kill random victims, Jack is her true prey. But which woman wants revenge more?
CHERRY BOMB is J. A. Konrath’s most gripping novel of suspense yet—filled with twists and turns that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
ORIGIN
Thriller writer J.A. Konrath, author of the Lt. Jack Daniels series, digs into the vaults and unearths a technohorror tale from the depths of hell…
1906–Something is discovered by workers digging the Panama Canal. Something dormant. Sinister. Very much alive.
2009–Project Samhain. A secret underground government installation begun 103 years ago in New Mexico. The best minds in the world have been recruited to study the most amazing discovery in the history of mankind. But the century of peaceful research is about to end.
Because it just woke up.
When linguist Andrew Dennison is yanked from his bed by the Secret Service and taken to a top secret facility in the desert , he has no idea he’s been brought there to translate the words of an ancient demon.
He joins pretty but cold veterinarian Sun Jones, eccentric molecular biologist Dr. Frank Belgium, and a hodge-podge of religious, military, and science personnel to try and figure out if the creature is, indeed, Satan.
But things quickly go bad, and very soon Andy isn’t just fighting for his life, but the lives of everyone on earth…
ORIGIN by J.A. Konrath
All hell is about to break loose. For real.
STOP A MURDER – HOW
This is unlike any mystery or thriller book you’ve ever read before. You play the sleuth, and try to follow the clues and solve the puzzles to prevent a murder from happening.
In this five-book series, you’ll be tasked with decoding the mind and motivations of a nefarious killer who is plotting to commit an unspeakable crime.
Each book contains an epistolary collection of emails, texts, and letters, sent to bestselling author J.A. Konrath, by a serial killer. This psychopath is leaving detailed, cryptic hints about who will be murdered, why, when, where, and how.
Some of the hints are easy to figure out. Others are much more devious.
Do you like solving mysteries? Do you enjoy puzzles or escape-the-room games? Are you good at spotting clues?
Only you can stop a murder.
Are you smart enough?
Are you brave enough?
Let the games begin…
#1 STOP A MURDER – HOW: Puzzles 1–12
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STOP A MURDER – WHEN
Copyright © 2017 by Joe Konrath
Cover art copyright © 2017 by Carl Graves
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from Joe Konrath.
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