“The Imposter Puzzle Book” by Roland Hall is a brilliant collection for puzzle lovers and mystery fans. The book features twelve whodunit-style puzzles, each set up as a short story where the reader must identify the imposter or traitor using clues from different types of evidence—police reports, diary entries, phone records, and more. This diversity in presentation keeps the book fresh and engaging, offering something new with each puzzle.
I absolutely loved the challenge it presented. It’s not just about solving word problems, but rather about immersing yourself in each case, feeling like a real detective as you piece together the clues. The puzzles are cleverly designed, and the satisfaction of cracking each case is truly rewarding.
If you enjoy a good mental workout and appreciate a well-crafted mystery, The Imposter Puzzle Book is an excellent choice. It’s perfect for anyone looking for a fun, interactive experience that exercises your brain while keeping you entertained. Highly recommended!

An interesting set of puzzles that are fun for groups to play.
Many thanks to NetGalley for this copy.

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.