Challenge 69

A Musical Maverick Mystery - Now Live!

My new novel ‘Challenge 69 - A Musical Maverick Mystery’ went live from 10 August 2022 (at 10am BST), with future installments now set to follow at regular monthly intervals. This timetable replicates the story’s narrative structure, allowing the mystery, and its built in ‘Challenge’, to unfold in real time, albeit five years delayed!

Subscribe today (using the button above) and you can read the story so far, spread over three posts; ‘Intro’, followed by ‘Track 1’, and completed by ‘Track 1 (continued).

To whet your appetite, I’ve added a ‘blurb’ giving a flavour for my book and a Spotify playlist link, mirroring the book’s Track/Chapter headings, that shows some of my protagonist’s ‘Maverick Music’ obsessions.

‘Challenge 69 - A Musical Maverick Mystery’

What is the mystifying ‘Challenge 69’ competition that has appeared online? How have its recipients been targeted? And what could its prize, heralded as ‘unique’, possibly be?

Stuart, a music obsessive with a meandering mind, decides to take up the ‘challenge’ and find out. While at first just another of his many distractions, the competition (with its ever more convoluted clues) soon starts to bring Stuart a new focus.

‘Challenge 69’ maintains its aura of inscrutability, with no explanation online, bizarre numbering, and a growing set of un-linkable solutions. Yet winning the prize becomes an increasingly realistic prospect as Stuart and his quizzical consortium pass each test.

He has a growing suspicion ‘Challenge 69’ may have an underlying musical theme, and a fledgling theory its clues were set in a different, less connected, age. Could these be the tell-tale signs Stuart needs to unlock the enigma and claim its ‘one-off’ reward?

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