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The Podcast Matrix Murders
Paperback
Series: A Matrix Mystery, Book 1
Publisher Price: $21.95
ISBN13: 9781955036924
Publisher: Whodunit Mystery Writing Competition Award Wi
Published: Sep 20 2025
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
WHODUNIT Mystery Writing Competition Award Winner
Chilling, beautifully constructed and compelling.... It has the necessary virtue of all mysteries-we can't wait to find out who and why. -Ambrose Clancy, Editor, The Shelter Island Reporter
A stark, searing opening. The reader, from the first sentence, is in the mind of a murderer who quickly and savagely bludgeons an unknown man to death in a motel room.
No motive is given, except anger fueled by the thousand disappointments in his life ... We follow him as he meticulously surveys the crime scene he has created so there will be no trace of him. One observation, tossed off as an afterthought, is he forgets to put the Do Not Disturb sign on the doorknob-a telling signal to the reader that all might not go as planned.
And within the next few sentences, as he makes his way carefully out of the motel (knowing how to hug walls to avoid surveillance cameras) we learn that this is not just the only murder he's working on. He has ideas for more, to dispatch those he refers to as adversaries and oppressors. And he's a fatalist, knowing patterns were the means that helped identify serial murderers. Once the police discerned the reason for the killings, they caught the murderers. He would not let them see why until everyone died.
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