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A locked room. Seven altered masterpieces. One black box that should be impossible to open.

Celebrated puzzle designer Sebastian Vale is found dead inside his private study on the night he planned to reveal the creation that would secure his legacy. The windows are sealed. The only door is bolted from within. Around his body stand seven of his most famous mechanisms-each subtly altered.

In his hands rests an eighth object: a seamless black puzzle box known as the Orphan.

Detective Tessa Calder notices what everyone else misses: someone has quietly changed the rules.

Her investigation leads to the Quiet Assembly, a secretive circle of designers, collectors, champions, and former protégés. Every member has a reason to hate Vale, and every witness is protecting something. Among them is Elias Flint, a brilliant and dangerously secretive puzzle maker whose connection to Vale reaches back to a childhood tragedy.

As new attacks reproduce the logic of Vale's creations, the Orphan begins responding to heat, sound, weight, reflection, and silence. Each movement exposes another buried theft, another manipulated memory, and another name erased from history.

Tessa soon realizes the locked room was never designed to conceal how Vale died.

It was designed to control when the truth would be understood.

The Impossible Box is a standalone Tessa Calder detective novel combining a fair-play locked-room mystery, realistic police procedure, emotional suspense, and a slow-burning attraction complicated by secrets and trust.

Parametry knihy

• Plný název: The Impossible Box
• Autor: Cliff Gailey
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 418
• EAN: 9798194054077
• ID: 53745671
• Nakladatelství: Independently published
• Hmotnost: 558 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 24 mm
• Datum vydání: 21. August 2026

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