Title: Games People Play: Opening Gambit
Author: Jack Wolff & TG Wolff
Genre: Mystery (Anthology)
Book Blurb:
Games are a part of every culture and go back further than human records. Games are one of the oldest forms of social interaction and engagement. Games can be fun, challenging and exhilarating. They can also be intense, cutthroat, and lethal. For your puzzle solving pleasure, Mysteries to Die For presents: Games People Play: Opening Gambit. Twelve stories fashioned with deadly games and unscrupulous villains. Twelve games where all of the cards definitely not on the table. It’s a race between you and the detective to find the killer before the opening gambit claims another victim.
Excerpt:
Games are a thing for children; a pastime for those with nothing better to do…or are they?
At the most basic level, games are competitions that are conducted according to rules with participants working toward a goal. Sometimes those goals are mutual, but most of the time, not so much. Games are a part of every culture and go back further than human records. Take the simple marble which has been found in the tombs of the ancient Egyptians, in the ashes in Pompeii, and in North American native archeology. Games are one of the oldest forms of social interaction and engagement. Games can be fun, challenging and exhilarating. They can also be intense, cutthroat, and lethal.
For your puzzle solving pleasure, Mysteries to Die For presents: Games People Play in a two-part anthology. Part one is Opening Gambit.
Faro. Cow Bingo. Cards Against Humanity. Scrabble. Indian Poker. Checkers. Dungeons & Dragons. Marbles. Hedbanz. Scavenger Hunt. Marco Polo. Tarot Cards.
Twelve stories fashioned with deadly games and unscrupulous villains. Twelve games where all of the cards definitely not on the table. It’s a race between you and the detective to find the killer before the opening gambit claims another victim.
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What makes your featured book a must-read?
Games People Play: Opening Gambit consists of twelve short mysteries arranged for you to be the detective to the solution. After the stage is set, the “deliberation” summarizes the characters and the facts so that you can name the culprit. Then comes the big reveal. Will you be right or will the guilty rule the day?
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Author Biography:
TG Wolff: Like you, I’m not one thing. I’m a writer, an engineer, a wife, and a mother. What is first on the list depends on the day. Beyond the title I claim, I’m a person who loves learning and thoroughly enjoys a good puzzle, is creative and gets bored easily. I hold a BS in Civil Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MS in Civil Engineering from Cleveland State University, which gives me absolutely no background in writing, but I do it anyway.
Jack Wolff: Jack is half of the brain power behind Mysteries to Die For podcast. Now starting it’s eighth season, Jack writes, performs the musical arrangements, and produces the show. He maintains the show’s fresh air by staunchly refusing to edit out his mother’s mistakes, no matter how much she begs.
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