About the author
Meet the owl behind Owlbrook
Owlbrook Puzzles is a small, independent puzzle publisher founded by Aaron Barbara in Malta.
Hello!
I'm Aaron Barbara, founder of Owlbrook Puzzles.
Owlbrook started in Malta with a simple idea: a puzzle book for grown-ups should feel like a good book. It should have a world you can step into, a story that keeps you turning the pages, and puzzles that always play fair.
That idea has grown into five series. Owlbrook Puzzles puts a clever twist on everyday favorites. Owlbrook Noir hands you a detective's badge in rain-soaked cities. Owlbrook Oddities opens the door to the fog-bound town of Gloomwick. Owlbrook Legends makes you a royal cartographer in a realm of giants and dragons. And Owlbrook Grim Tales takes you to a crooked little town where nobody dies of natural causes.
What ties them together is care. Clear rules and worked examples, so nobody is left behind on page one. Difficulty that climbs as your confidence grows. Hints and full solutions waiting at the back. And every single puzzle checked by computer to make sure it has exactly one answer, reachable by logic alone.
I'd love to hear from you, whether you've cracked a case, spotted the hidden cat, or have an idea for a puzzle you'd like to see. Drop me a line or say hello on Facebook.
Happy puzzling,
Aaron
The Owlbrook promise
Five things you can count on
Fair play, always
Every puzzle has exactly one solution and can be solved by logic alone. In the mystery books, the final deduction only uses clues you've already been shown.
A world to step into
Most books tell a story across all their puzzles, with characters, maps and a twist at the end, and the twist is never spoiled in the blurb.
Easy to start
Each new kind of puzzle is explained with a worked example before you meet it for real.
Grown-up, but never grim for the sake of it
Dark themes with a light touch: no gore, no sexual content, no bad language.
Honest covers
Every count on a cover or listing matches what's inside the book.
Behind the books
How an Owlbrook book is made
- 1
A world and a question
Every book begins with a place and a problem: a haunted house left to you in a will, a realm nobody has mapped, a carnival where someone keeps dying.
- 2
Puzzles that tell the story
The puzzles are shaped to fit the story, so solving them moves the plot along, and difficulty climbs chapter by chapter.
- 3
Checked, then checked again
A separate solver program re-solves every puzzle from scratch and confirms there is exactly one answer, with no guessing needed.
- 4
Printed when you order
Nothing sits in a warehouse. Amazon prints each paperback when it's ordered and ships it straight to you.
Why an owl?
Wise, patient, and up past bedtime
Look closely at the Owlbrook owl and you'll see it's holding a little puzzle grid, with one square filled in. That's the feeling we're after: a quiet evening, a sharpened pencil, and the moment the first answer clicks into place.
Press & media kit
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Short bio
Owlbrook Puzzles is an independent publisher of puzzle books for grown-ups, founded by Aaron Barbara in Malta in 2026. Its five series (Owlbrook Puzzles, Owlbrook Noir, Owlbrook Oddities, Owlbrook Legends and Owlbrook Grim Tales) wrap logic puzzles, ciphers and mysteries in story-rich worlds, and every puzzle is checked by computer to have exactly one solution. The books are available as paperbacks on Amazon.
Fact sheet
- Founded
- 2026, Malta
- Founder
- Aaron Barbara
- Books
- 24 paperbacks in 5 series
- Available
- Amazon, worldwide
- Contact
- info@owlbrookpuzzles.com
- Web
- www.owlbrookpuzzles.com
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