During Covid friends and I played murder mystery party games every month over Zoom. These online games were a great way to connect with friends and for a night of fun. While we were playing, Kerry Hammond and I, would often talk about what we would do differently if we were writing them. After four years of playing these games, we finally tired it out.
We each wrote a mystery and tried it out with your group. And everyone loved it. So we shared the mysteries with a few other groups. The feedback was so positive, we decided to start our own downloadable murder mystery business.
It's called Blame the Butler. We launched at Bouchercon in Nashville and we're super excited.
I love writing the mysteries and testing them. We hope you'll like playing them.
We started out with two mysteries - Murder at Mardi Gras and Death of the Monsignor. Two more mysteries are in testing and will be posted soon. Murder at Mardi Gras is specially designed for people who haven't hosted many of these parties, and Death of the Monsignor is for those who have hosted many parties before. Each mystery is for eight players and can be played online or in person. And the host can play too because our mysteries are designed so the host can be just as surprised as everyone else.
We'll be doing a monthly free newsletter announcing new mysteries and talking about all of our favorite mystery party tips, and each of our latest fiction (more announcements on that soon).
To sign up for that newsletter go here, and scroll down to the bottom. We'll also be blogging a bit over on Blame the Butler.
