“The Fellowship Of Puzzlemakers” by Samuel Burr (2024)

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I’ve always liked a puzzle. Not jigsaw puzzles, actually, I don’t have the patience, but I like a crossword or wordsearch, a dingbat or a logic puzzle. I absolutely love a quiz. So a novel about puzzles feels entirely up my alley.

Clayton Stumper has always been something of an enigma. Dropped as a baby on the doorstep of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by a group of older people who all delighted in designing and playing puzzles, and pr...