The stories were written with captivating and entertaining plots. Best read and played in groups so people can share their speculations.

The Imposter Puzzle Book invites you into an engaging world of mystery and deduction, where each puzzle is a gateway to unraveling secrets and identifying imposters. Set against the haunting backdrop of Stranraer Castle in southwest Scotland—historically a military garrison during the turbulent Killing Times of the 17th century—this interactive puzzle collection challenges readers to apply their logic and intuition to a series of intriguing conundrums.

The book features 12 distinct puzzles, each centred around a unique character with a rich backstory, illustrated with detailed sketches to bring them to life. As you delve into each character's narrative, you must utilize your powers of deduction to determine who among them is an imposter and who is merely an innocent bystander.

Highlights:
- Each riddle is designed to test your ingenuity and perseverance, pushing you to decipher motives and actions of the characters.
- Engaging scenarios include:
- Unmasking the mole who leaked information about a climate activist group.
- Discovering who is feeding stories to the press regarding a politician.
- Identifying the secret police informant embedded within a mob.
- Solving the mystery of who stole money during a funeral.
- Tracing the hacker behind a scandalous photo leak of a social media influencer.

With each successful deduction, you'll progress to the next thrilling riddle, making your way through a suspenseful narrative that weaves together history and mystery.

Perfect for
- Puzzle books that incorporate mystery elements.
- Interactive and immersive reading experiences that challenge both logic and creativity.
- Fans of mystery and detective genres who enjoy solving intricate puzzles.

The Imposter Puzzle Book is perfect for those who relish the thrill of deduction and love to immerse themselves in captivating stories while flexing their mental muscles. Whether at home or on the go, it offers an exciting way to engage your mind, making it an ideal companion for puzzle enthusiasts and amateur detectives alike. Get ready to uncover secrets and navigate the shadows in your quest to identify the true imposters!

Thank you to NetGalley for Providing me with an E-ARC to review!
This does not in any way, shape, or form alter my opinions or what I rated this book.
Overall I found that it was a bit difficult for me to get into this book but overall I found it very interesting but I wasn’t hooked on it. I really loved the concept of this book and that the answers to riddles are there at the end to give you a better understanding. Overall I liked it.

Fun activity book for people who like puzzles. The format was a little different than I expected but still an overall good book.

This was my very first book of this kind. I have no words to explain how much I enjoyed doing this! I am actually buying the physical copy!

First off, I would like to thank NetGalley and Roland Hall for the ARC. I found the puzzles interesting.

This was a fun and unique puzzle book! It has a dozen short stories that leave the reader to figure out who is the liar or the cheat. The first few were pretty easy, but they got more challenging as they went along. You definitely needed to pay attention to the details to figure them out.

The stories themselves were interesting, and each was different, but not all of them had me super excited and invested. Some I was just reading through to try to solve the mystery, as opposed to actually being interested in the story.

This puzzle book was very difficult for me but I can say I still really enjoyed completing it with my partner.

This puzzle book really tested how good I would be at identifying the traitor. I had to truly sit down and trust myself going through the processes and paying attention to the small details. I would def recommend this if you're trying to get better at problem solving and critical thinking or if you enjoy "whodunit" books and shows.

Test your detective skills.

I volunteered to read a copy of this Arc through NetGalley.

This was fun and kept me engaged. The puzzles are a good mix of different levels from easier to challenging. If you like puzzle books, you should try it!

I really enjoyed this interactive puzzle book - but it made me feel a bit dumb. The clues are right there in front of you, and it seems like it should be easy to solve these mysteries - but things aren't actually as easy as they look. You will need to pay close attention to every word in order to come out ahead.

Such a fun title!

This was honestly so much fun. It helped me decompress from long work days, or just kept me entertained during boring days if I couldn’t leave the house. Loved it!

This is actually really enjoyable! Though it did call me dumb in many many ways. The mysteries are hard but not unsolvable if you take your time. I do not have a talent for this, but this is absolutely awesome for people who enjoy escape rooms. Best experience if you take some notes , and i thonk the physical book would help much because you will be turning pages again and again to compare, reread, etc.

Thank you to netgalley and the author for sending me the book in exchange for an honest review

Cute little book. It worked with my students but not with my adults. It was just too easy for them.

A Puzzle Book like none you've ever seen, with complicated, and truly difficult word puzzles where you act as the detective in a series of crimes, betrayals, and mysteries. i found them too difficult for myself so a beginner wouldn't be recommended. but for a person who really likes puzzles where you fit together the clues to find the culprit, this is a great challenge! filled with amazing illustrations, really great story based puzzles, and a good narration, it's a sherlock holms puzzler in a book!

I really liked the idea of this book, the puzzles are more involved than a normal puzzle book and there are some interesting scenarios. It's a fun format, with a variety of types of clues so it doesn't get too repetitive. I did find some of the puzzles a bit too easy but that does mean they'll be enjoyable for a wide range of people and ages. This is the kind of book you dip into every now and then rather than reading in one go.

A quickly-read (if not quickly-solved) spread of kind-of lateral puzzles, where the traitor in the midst of the characters has to be identified each chapter. To start with, the opening poser is from the point of view of an organiser for an eco-protest that got rumbled; with testimony to him and to the police he managed to glimpse it's hoped we can find out who was passing on insider information to the fuzz. Next it's to a coastal hotel, where an acid review is dripping into the profits, unless the manager can prove someone did it out of spite. We leave Britain next, as an elderly artist in New Jersey has his estate picked at before the wake was even finished, but immediately return when the chair of the Neighbourhood Watch in prime Midsommer territory has to investigate graffiti placed at a specific time – against himself.

One aspect of this I loved was the way it outdoes even Janice Hallett – we learn bits and bots through emails, notes on train tickets, and so on, and we don't just get the text in such quirky fashion, but the whole gamut of mixed visuals to provide us with the clues, as per the better home murder mystery pack. I've loved it since a child when the font-setter and type designer has fun. But there are also negatives – and I don't just mean the leftie pronoun-mangling and Brexit dig. Take the second case – the 'proof' we're given in the answers is on the one hand not exactly true, and on the other hand so circumstantial to be irrelevant, and not really a logical aid to anyone. The fourth instance here was a killer, too – in that it killed the fun. It completely ignored that we've had it drummed into us to search for a motive – here there's none – and nothing was actually proven, so all we end with is a cheap way to finger someone because they don't tell the truth.

OK, that's the purpose here – I guess perhaps due to some TV programme here in the UK about traitors. We're not to solve grand crimes (although they do get more serious as the book goes on) but just spot the duplicitous, which would help us all in the real world, probably. But I just think this was not the friendliest of volumes, in not guiding us to the answers after each case, in having multiple answers to multiple posers on the same page, and in not obeying the friendly logic we all welcome in such crime-solving larks. No, to get more cleverness out of the reader I'd have expected more cleverness on the page.

I absolutely love puzzles. I had a hard time getting into this book. Will revisit when life is less hectic in case that was my difficulty.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this eARC.

The Imposter Puzzle Book: Use Your Logic and Intuition to Identify the Traitors by Roland Hall is a captivating journey into the world of mystery and deduction. This book is not just a collection of puzzles; it’s an adventure that tests the limits of your logic and intuition.

Hall has crafted a series of challenges that are as engaging as they are perplexing. The book comprises 12 unique puzzles, each with its own narrative and set of clues that require a keen eye and sharp mind to unravel. The puzzles range from straightforward to complex, ensuring that both novices and seasoned puzzle enthusiasts will find something to enjoy.

The presentation of the book is noteworthy, with puzzles accompanied by various forms of evidence such as emails, witness statements, and receipts, which add depth to the experience. It’s like stepping into the shoes of a detective, sifting through the evidence to catch the elusive traitors.

What sets this book apart is the interactive element. It’s not just about solving puzzles; it’s about immersing yourself in the stories and becoming part of the narrative. The satisfaction of cracking a particularly tough case is immensely rewarding.

However, the book is not without its challenges. Some have said the stories are too verbose or that the solution relies on assumed rather than provided knowledge.

Despite these critiques, the overall consensus is positive for this book. It provides a great way to challenge yourself or to enjoy with friends and family as you collectively put your detective hats on and solve the mysteries within.

The Imposter Puzzle Book by Roland Hall is a delightful addition to any puzzle lover’s collection. It’s a book that will challenge your cognitive abilities and provide you with a unique and entertaining experience. Whether you’re looking to test your own skills or engage in a group activity, this book is sure to provide hours of fun and intrigue.

To start, I think that the layout of this book is very fun, and very interactive. I like the additions of the photographs, and that the lay-out of the evidence is formatted to look like the kind of media it represents. Emails look like emails, wills look like wills, and there are hand-written notes, typed documents, blueprints, maps, and more. I think this is a good way of making the reader feel more involved in what is happening in the puzzle, and giving the evidence in the puzzle more gravitas.

I would have liked this book more if the puzzles' solutions did more to explain the full solution. I'm not great at these kinds of puzzles, I admit. I'm more of a reader of mysteries, so part of me expected a full solution once the puzzle was finished. But I read the puzzles, and I didn't usually correctly guess who-did-it (although a few times I surprised myself), and after each puzzle I immediately flipped to the back of the book for the solution, and the solution only ever gave me the bare-bones answer of who-dun-it. I think I'd like this puzzle book more if the solutions had deeper explanations. Without spoiling the puzzle, in the third puzzle in the book "Family Fortunes," there is money that is stolen from a safe, and the question is: who stole this money? While I was reading through all the evidence given, I had questions of my own that came to mind, that I wanted to know the answer to: What is the safe code, and what does it represent? Why did Milo hate his father? What was the typo, and was it in the will or in the newspaper article? When did Leanne die, and was it really an accident? What was JG's connection to the fire department?) none of which were answered (at least not obviously) in the puzzle documents themselves, or in the provided solution. I understand that it's a puzzle game, and our only job, as the reader, is to pick up the clues and fit them together to figure out who-dun-it, but there are enough details given in the puzzle portion to make me wonder these questions, and they are never fully answered. And when the solution is provided, it also lacks details.

I will admit that the puzzles were interesting, and I wasn't bored at all while trying to figure everything out, but the way the solutions were presented left me mildly frustrated.