Review: The Puzzle Keeper
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 2, 2011
The Puzzle Keeper is a based on the premise that a portion of the human population have developed supernatural abilities after an unknown plague. Those who are merely human are deeply suspicious of the Survivors, preferring to ostracize and persecute them. A team of Survivors who function as public relations specialists and crime solvers are teamed with regular detectives to solve a string of hate crimes against Survivors. Someone is targeting a prominent list of Survivors for murder. When it's not safe for the Survivor detectives to reveal their own identities to the normal humans they work with, it's hard to ferret out who can be trusted and what the real motive for the murders is. Are the crimes being carried out by an ultra conservative "human" rights organization or is the organization being framed for to serve someone else's purposes? The story is intriguing. My only complaint was that information about the plague, its principle researcher and his Survivor links were sketchy but seemed to be an integral part of the story. It left an important hole in the story. (I received a free copy of this book in exchange for reviewing it.)