Sudoku Murder

Professor P. T. Avondale, proprietor of the Avondale Puzzle Museum, is found murdered at his desk, his own letter opener protruding from his neck, a half-finished sudoku puzzle in front of him. Katie McDonald, member of the Institute of Theoretical Mathematics and master puzzle-solver, has returned home to Granville, New Hampshire, only days before to save her childhood mentor's museum from being auctioned to make way for an outlet mall. Now she finds herself as curator of the museum, mentor to the professor's newest charge--a fourteen-year-old runaway--and the only one in town with the wits and determination to find the professor's killer. As Katic reacquaints herself with the museum, filled with puzzles from around the world and throughout the centuries, and searches for answers among the townspeople--plenty of whom had motives for murder--she becomes the chief of police's number-one suspect and the actual killer's number-one target. With the help of a handful of endearingly quirky allies and a clue left by the professor in his unfinished sudoku, Katie works to solve this puzzle before a ruthless killer catches her and applies his own deadly solution.Freydont, Shelley is the author of 'Sudoku Murder ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780786719778 and ISBN 078671977X.