Description
When the reigning speed-puzzling champion is found dead in the back room of Hattie Raasch’s puzzle café, she’s clutching one piece that matches no puzzle in the shop. To save her café and the old friend the police suspect, Hattie has to work out where that piece came from, and who in the tournament already knew the final puzzle by heart.
Genre: Cozy Mystery / Crafts & Hobbies (jigsaw puzzles), amateur woman sleuth
Tropes: Amateur sleuth, small-town shop owner, hobby competition gone wrong, cat sidekick, meddling aunt, slow-burn maybe-romance, fair-play whodunit
Target length: 70,000–80,000 words (about 300–350 pages)
What’s inside this Pocket Plot
- Concept at a glance: title options, series name, tone, POV and comparable titles
- The Market-Matched™ case: the sales data behind this story, market snapshot, comps and what readers are asking for
- The story: premise, main characters, story spine, the central twist or obstacle, a reader-expectation checklist and a full beat map
- Ready to sell: Amazon title and subtitle, categories, keywords, book description, back cover copy and cover direction
- Room to grow: series potential with follow-up book ideas
- How to build it with AI: step-by-step guide with copy-and-paste prompts
Exclusive to one author: this Pocket Plot is sold once, then removed from the shelf.
