Thirty-five cold cases. Buried evidence. Crimes that time almost erased.
Volume 3 of the Raven's Riddle Cases series takes you into cases that defeated the detectives who came before you. The witnesses are older - some are dead. The physical evidence has degraded. Official records have been altered, lost, or deliberately destroyed.
Each case presents you with a crime, witness statements, physical evidence, and one question. The rules are the same as Volumes 1 and 2: every answer follows logically from the evidence. At least one piece of evidence is a red herring. A hint is there if you need it. The full solution is in the answer key.
A body found beneath a pub basement after a decade. A teacher's diary naming a killer from 1987. A 1920s confession letter discovered inside a demolished post office wall. A serial hospital killer hidden by statistics. An aerial photograph revealing a grave that has been there for fifty years. A medieval murder concealed inside the walls of the church the victim built.
Three difficulty tiers:
Investigator - The evidence is old. The truth is not.
Detective - Multiple threads across multiple decades. Hold them all.
Chief Inspector - Institutions protect themselves. The truth protects no one.
This volume includes: Cold case reviews. Exhumations. Historical murders. Institutional cover-ups. Contaminated evidence. Deathbed confessions. Sealed archives. Deleted databases. And crimes that waited centuries for someone to solve them.
For readers who solved Volumes 1 and 2 and want the hardest challenge yet. For anyone who believes the truth does not expire.
35 cold cases. Zero filler. Pure deduction.
The truth does not expire. It waits. Sometimes for centuries.