{"product_id":"the-riddle-maker-a-porter-beck-mystery-9781250373939","title":"The Riddle Maker: A Porter Beck Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the latest in this \u003ci\u003eUSA Today \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling series, Nevada sheriff Porter Beck receives an anonymous riddle leading him to a body hidden for decades, leading Beck and his team in a chase to unravel riddles that will help them uncover and stop a long-time serial killer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePorter Beck is the sheriff of Lincoln County, Nevada, a vast expanse of desert and mountains best known to the outside world for the top-secret installation called Area 51. Just down the highway sits a weathered mailbox where UFO believers leave messages for aliens. But this time, the message is for Beck. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's a riddle. And when Beck and his team decipher it, the answer leads them to the shrinking waters of Lake Mead and an oil drum chained to the bottom. Inside are the remains of someone missing for more than fifty years, someone tied to Beck by a thread of DNA stretching deep into his own past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnter Jett Lowell, a pint-sized but fearless FBI profiler who believes Beck's riddle is connected to one she received seventeen years earlier, shortly before the disappearance of someone close to her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConvinced they are hunting a serial killer, Beck and Jett follow a trail of riddles from the deserts of Nevada to the mountains of Arizona, and finally to the red rock wilderness of Utah, racing to uncover a chain of murders spanning generations before the killer unleashes a final, horrendous act decades in the making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Minotaur Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250373939\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bruce Borgos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53376028049589,"sku":"9781250373939","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781250373939.jpg?v=1790261102","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-riddle-maker-a-porter-beck-mystery-9781250373939","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}