Killer Puzzles: Crosswords, Cyphers, Cryptograms, and More for the True-Crime Obsessed

The ultimate code-cracking puzzle book for die-hard true crime fans

Put your detective skills to the test! With more than 120 crosswords, cryptograms, word searches, word scrambles, and quizzes, Killer Puzzles will keep you guessing. You’ll uncover hundreds of fascinating facts about modern history’s most notorious criminals and their shocking crimes while you ponder questions like these:

- What career did cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer wistfully wish he’d pursued?
- Which junk food helped police catch California’s Grim Sleeper?
- For which band did murderer Charles Manson write a song?
- What famous clothing designer had ties to Nazi intelligence?
- Which cult carried out a deadly sarin attack to fulfill its world-ending prophecy?
- What drug queenpin was known as ＂The Black Widow＂?

From serial killers and assassins to femme fatales, mob bosses, and cult leaders, no stone-cold criminal will go undiscovered in Killer Puzzles.

Archer Thorne is a nonfiction writer whose fascination for forensics comes from his mom, a pathologist. He balances his true-crime research with plenty of time playing with his two kids and their dopey yellow lab, Noodle, in Portland, Oregon.