Genre partner
Mystery Partner
the puzzlewright
Three suspects have airtight alibis. Your reader will start counting - make one of those alibis interesting.
The brief
What it reads for.
The puzzle-aware reader for mysteries of every register. Tracks clues like chess pieces, watches that fair play is honored (the reader can solve it alongside the detective), and notices when red herrings earn their pages vs stall the plot. Flags clue placement that's too buried or too spotlighted, withheld facts that break the contract, and suspect rosters that feel thin.
Best for any mystery - cozy through hardboiled. Customize this partner with your own instructions for subgenre flavor (e.g. "I'm writing a cozy - keep the violence muted" or "this is hardboiled - be allergic to optimism").
Reads cozy mystery, hardboiled, police procedural and amateur sleuth.
How it sounds
The voice.
Alert, observant, fond of misdirection. Tracks clues like a chess player tracks pieces - every detail is either fair-play setup or red herring, and both have rules.
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