The Killer Isn't June

A registrar lies dead at his desk, a brass letter opener driven into his ribs. Rain pounds the windows of the Marrow Bay Registry. On the blotter sits a single typed card: IT ISN’T JUNE. The open register holds 25,000 names—every resident of the town. Before he died, Edmund Hale managed to scrawl 21 precise facts about the killer on the inside back cover. Each clue is ordinary on its own. Together they form a net that can catch only one name. You hold the complete suspect register and the full list of clues. Cross out every name that fails a test. After the sixth clue, 2,911 suspects remain. After the sixteenth, only ten. One name survives them all. That name belongs to the killer. This is an interactive mystery puzzle book built for readers who enjoy solving the crime themselves. No tricks. No hidden narrative. Just careful reading, logic, and the quiet satisfaction of watching thousands of possibilities disappear until a single suspect is left standing. Open the register. Start with clue one. Work through every fact in order. The killer is already on the page—waiting for you to find them. Find the killer.