Vincent Ashford

(Dead Reckoning: The Mastermind 4/4) The rain hasn’t stopped for three nights. Somewhere in this city, a body hit the pavement, and the police closed the case too fast. They called it a mugging. The whispers call it murder. The truth? Buried deep in smoke and shadows. The victim was Elias Moreau, a bookkeeper with no enemies on paper — and too many off the record. He knew something. Something worth killing for. Now it’s your job to find out who pulled the trigger, and why. Four figures hold the pieces of the puzzle. The cards never lie — but they don’t give up their secrets easily. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯❦⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Three nights of rain, and still they believe their comfortable lies. Elias was a thread that needed cutting - a loose end in a tapestry twenty years in the weaving. His ledgers told stories that would topple empires, so we gave him a different ending. The beautiful thing about chaos? Everyone scrambles to make sense of it, but they only see the pieces I allow them to see. The real question isn't who killed Elias Moreau. It's whether you're clever enough to understand why he had to die." ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯❦⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ One dead bookkeeper. Four suspects with blood on their hands. The cards never lie - but people do. •Question each player. •Use their secrets against each other. When the stories crack, the truth bleeds through. In this city, everyone's guilty of something.