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Sudoku Premium

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You won’t be looking for a paper puzzle ever again! With 4 difficulty levels, intuitive...

The Treasures of Montezuma 3 HD

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Match tokens to unlock incredible riches in The Treasures of Montezuma 3! With over 200 levels,...

Playdead's INSIDE

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Play the beginning for free. In-app purchase the full game. Compatible with iPhone 6S, iPad Air...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2336 KP) rated Puzzle Me a Murder in Books

Aug 2, 2024

Puzzle Me a Murder

Roz Noonan | 2024 | Mystery

3.0

(1 Ratings)

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Missing Pieces

Alice Pepper enjoys having her friends over to work on puzzles most nights. Among the group is her childhood best friend Ruby Milliner. When Ruby arrives home from a business trip early, she catches her husband with his mistress. The next morning, Ruby’s husband is dead, and the police are looking at Ruby as their prime suspect. Alice jumps in to find the killer. But does she have all the pieces to solve this puzzle?

Despite the fact that I’m not much of a jigsaw puzzle guy, I thought this sounded like a fun premise for a series. Sadly, I was wrong. I didn’t feel like the characters ever went beyond being types, and it felt like they had too many interests or skills in their background. It felt like the author was checking boxes instead of making well rounded characters. There wasn’t attention to detail, so these things bumped me out of the book. The novel could have lost 60 pages without losing anything, the pacing was that off. And the climax, while logical, seemed abrupt to me. I really did want to like it more, but I won’t give this series another chance.

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The Marlow Murder Club

Robert Thorogood

10.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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A delightfully clever new mystery from creator of BBC One's hilarious murder mystery series Death in...

Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Kohinoor: The Story of the World s Most Infamous Diamond in Books

Jul 24, 2017

Extremely detailed account of the origins of one of the most famous diamonds and why there is so much contention (0 more)

Sometimes too much detail makes you lose track (0 more)

Dalrymple's no holding back factual account

This was the missing piece of the puzzle in terms of attempting to find out the truth behind the Kohi-Noor diamond. Absolutely no frills account on how the diamond left in its path so much wanton death and destruction. William Dalrymple as always - a detailed historian putting forward the facts. Fascinating and both historically and currently important.

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Lumos (380 KP) rated Patchwork in Tabletop Games

Mar 26, 2018

Patchwork

2014 | Abstract Strategy, Puzzle

7.9

(14 Ratings)

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Easy to learn (1 more)

Fast game to play

No insert for the game box (0 more)

This was a quick little game. Since it is a two-player, my friend and I played it while our DM put the last few touches on a one-off D&D campaign. It took about 20 minutes from learning to play to checking the final scores. I enjoyed the puzzle aspect of the game, though I don't always have the spatial awareness to determine how a piece would fit on my board so my piece of patchwork had many holes!

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The Marinated Meeple (1853 KP) rated The Da Vinci Code in Books

Mar 27, 2018

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

7.9

(67 Ratings)

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By far and away Dan Brown's best work (3 more)

The Puzzles

the emotional ride

the subjects and locations

This is a great thriller

I just really liked this book, I've read it too long ago to go into many details. But I intend to revisit it someday, and that means something as i usually don't revisit books. I like to consume and move forward, knowing that the next great story is waiting for me to reveal it.kind of like this book does with each puzzle, on to the next one.