Janice Hallett has carved out a distinctive niche in contemporary crime fiction, and with The Killer Question, she demonstrates once again why readers and critics alike have embraced her unconventional approach to murder mysteries. This latest offering transforms the seemingly innocuous setting of a rural pub quiz night into a labyrinthine tale of deception, identity theft, and murder that unfolds through emails, text messages, police transcripts, and quiz scoresheets. The premise is deceptively simple: Sue and Mal Eastwood take over The Case is Altered, an isolated pub struggling to survive, and launch a weekly quiz night that breathes new life into the establishment. Everything seems perfect until a body surfaces in the nearby river, and shortly afterward, a mysterious team called The Shadow Knights arrives, scoring impossibly high marks week after week. But as the documentary-making nephew Dominic Eastwood discovers five years later, nothing at The Case is Altered was quite what it seemed. A Narrative Structure That Doubles as a Puzzle Hallett’s signature epistolary format reaches new heights of sophistication here. The story unfolds …