🧩 How to Play
🔍 1. Read the Case
Each mystery begins with a suspicious death and a few early clues.
Gina’s notes, evidence photos, and case summaries will pull you into the investigation.
📬 2. New Clues Every Few Weeks
Every few weeks, a new clue is revealed: an interview, forensic detail, surveillance footage, or something unexpected. Follow Gina’s progress, study the evidence, work the angles, and build your theory. You can revisit earlier clues anytime to help connect the dots.
🧠3. Submit Your Theory
When you think you’ve got it figured out, submit your theory describing motive, means, and opportunity.
Only one submission per player — so choose your moment wisely!
🏆 4. Be the First to Get It Right
The first person to submit a correct theory wins a cameo in the next Hard Rokk Mysteries book, appearing as a named character when the case is officially solved in print!
THE CASE CLOSES WHEN THE NEW BOOK IS RELEASED.
Between the Noise: Scene 3 — Public vs. Private Voice
The CSU team had bagged and boxed most of Lena’s home office by the time Gina and Valdez stepped inside. The small room smelled faintly of printer toner and lavender spray, but the desk itself looked almost staged: neat stacks of paper, color-coded folders, one ring light still angled toward a chair where Lena must have recorded countless streams.
“Everything catalogued,” the crime scene tech said, handing Gina a thin evidence packet. “Nothing out of place. Printer history only shows ads, sponsor scripts, and podcast prep.”
Gina flipped through the inventory list. Sponsorship reads. Travel receipts. Calendar pages. One folder marked Memoir – Private Drafts, but that was digital-only, not printed, not on the desk. “No journals? No handwritten notes?”
The tech shook his head. “Nothing. She was paper-light. Kept most things digital.”
Valdez glanced at the suicide note still pinned to the murder board photo in his hand. “So why print this?”
The question hung there. Gina didn’t answer. Instead, she scanned the transcript excerpt tucked behind the report—pulled from Lena’s most-watched episode six months ago, Let’s Talk About Sedona.
On the page, Lena’s voice came alive again:
“Sedona was a turning point for me. I’d made a lot of bad decisions before that trip—ones I wasn’t proud of. But something about that place… it stripped me down. I sat in the stillness, and for the first time in years, I didn’t run from it. I don’t talk much about what came before. That’s not the part that matters. What matters is I walked out of Sedona knowing I had to change.”
Gina tapped her finger against the transcript. Reflective. Careful. Empowered.
Then her eyes went back to the suicide note, stark on the corkboard in Times New Roman:
“Sedona was the moment I knew I could die with a secret no one ever saw.”
Same place. Same memory. Completely different tone.
Valdez caught the look on her face. “Doesn’t sound like the same woman.”
“Because it isn’t,” Gina said quietly. “This wasn’t her voice. Somebody wanted us to believe it was.”
New Clues Added: Photo of victim’s desk, excerpt from transcript of Sedona podcast.
(Remember, you only get one shot! Don’t submit too soon unless you’re sure!)
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