Book 1 · Escape-room murder mystery
Locked in the Waxworks
Thirteen locked rooms. One night. One of the waxworks is breathing.
Owlbrook Grim Tales: Gothic murder-mystery puzzle books for grown-ups, from the crooked town of Sorrowby
Gothic murder mysteries · 5 books
Owlbrook Grim Tales
In Sorrowby-on-the-Wane, the doctor signs every certificate 'natural causes' and the undertaker keeps a list of the ones that weren't. Get locked in a waxworks until dawn, join a travelling carnival where a performer dies every night, make a toymaker's clockwork dolls testify, solve your own murder in seven nights, or spend a macabre year as the undertaker's apprentice.
Every book mixes ten kinds of puzzle into chains: each answer is a piece of evidence, a lock code or a key, and the last deduction names the killer.
- SettingThe crooked town of Sorrowby-on-the-Wane
- PuzzlesChains of mixed puzzles: ciphers, logic grids, floor plans, timelines, lying witnesses and more
- MoodMacabre and darkly funny, but never nasty
- Look closelyDirge, a one-eyed raven, is hiding in the pictures
- FormatPaperbacks, 8.5 × 11 in, €12.99
Why readers pick it
What makes Owlbrook Grim Tales special
- Chained puzzles: every answer unlocks the next clue, so nothing feels like filler
- A final Accusation in every book, forced by clues you have already seen
- Hints, answer checks and full solutions with the reasoning
- Deaths are stated, never described: macabre fun without the gore
Where to start
The Undertaker’s Casebook
Forty short cases make it the easiest to dip into: one case is a coffee break.
The books
All 5 books in Owlbrook Grim Tales
Every book stands on its own, so you can start anywhere.
Book 2 · Carnival murder mystery
The Crooked Carnival
Every night the carnival performs. Every night one performer doesn’t take a bow.
Book 3 · Automaton murder mystery
The Clockwork Witnesses
The toymaker is dead. His clockwork dolls saw everything. They just can’t stop repeating it.
Book 4 · Ghostly murder mystery
Seven Nights Dead
You have been murdered. You have seven nights to find out who did it.
Book 5 · 40 short murder cases
The Undertaker’s Casebook
In Sorrowby, nobody dies of natural causes. The undertaker has the paperwork to prove it.
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