A Sudoku Mystery Series

Small-town Sudoku expert Liza Kelly flies to Los Angeles to appear on TV. But when a celebrity is found dead, she has a far more serious puzzle to solve.

Figure out whodunnit in this clever installment in the exciting Sudoku mystery series featuring puzzle master Liza Kelly…

Original Sudoku puzzles included

After spending her vacation hiding from the media, Liza returns to find that the town has put her in the running for mayor. She has a feeling that the neighboring county and its dirty political machine are involved. When she turns to an old classmate to find out, she discovers that he’s been murdered. A closeted Sudoku fan, he’s left behind puzzles that may have hidden clues to what finished him off and who is trying to run Liza into the ground.

Maiden’s Bay is a small, scenic town on the Oregon Coast where citizens get their number fix thanks to Liza Kelly—Sudoku Maven with the Oregon Daily. Her challenging puzzles sharpen the mind, and her deductive skills unravel even the most enigmatic clues.
 
Liza is looking forward to a refreshing change of pace as a competitor in the West Coast Sudoku Summit. It’s a chance to break away from her job and her almost-boyfriends back home. That is, until her paramours show up and an obnoxious TV crew decides to cover the Sudoku A-listers. Now Liza knows how the numbers feel—boxed in.
 
During the first round, one of Liza’s toughest opponents makes a spectacle in front of the cameras—by dropping dead. And soon, contestants are being eliminated one by one, and not in the way Liza planned. There’s more at stake here than prize money, and if Liza doesn’t find out what’s up with the murderer’s pattern, she’ll the next one down.

Liza Kelly, Sudoku Maven with the Oregon Daily, is conducting a sudoku class in the most unlikely of locales: the minimum security wing of the Oregon Coastal Penitentiary. The students are eager for the distraction—they have too much time on their hands. And some of them are surprisingly good at their lessons. Though she’s sad when her best student has to quit the class, Liza is thrilled because he’s about to be released from prison.
 
But he doesn’t enjoy his freedom for long. His dead body turns up in Liza’s rented room during a snowbound weekend with her beau. With the police and an insurance investigator hounding her for information, and a rising threat that she or someone she loves could be the next victim, Liza believes her only solution to this murder is sudoku—and the secrets her clever student encoded into the seventeen-clue puzzle he created just before he died.

Liza Kelly, sudoku maven with the Oregon Daily, settled down in Maiden’s Bay to escape the Hollywood career that brought stress into her life—and her marriage. Unfortunately, the producers of Counterfeit have selected the town as the perfect location for their new film starring up-and-coming starlet Jenny Robbins—and they’ve brought in Liza’s ex-husband, Michael, to work on the script.
 
Taking on the role of Jenny’s publicist puts Liza in the center of the action, where inflated egos and artistic temperaments clash both on set and off. But when one of the film’s major players is found buried up to the neck in sand on the Oregon shore, drowned by the incoming tide, liza finds herself investigating the cast and crew to determine who wrote this death scene.

Maiden’s Bay is a small, scenic town on the Oregon Coast where citizens get their number fix thanks to Liza Kelly-Sudoku Maven with the Oregon Daily. Her challenging puzzles sharpen the mind, and her deductive skills unravel even the most enigmatic clues.

Liza enters a Sudoku tournament in which her old friend and competitor turns up dead. Now, she must think outside the boxes to find a murderer.