THE BLACKWATER
GAME
Ebook · £0.99
An imagined coastal village at dusk, its harbour lights glowing beneath steep cliffs.

A COASTAL YA MYSTERY

The Blackwater
Game.

The game was fake.
The body wasn't.

A novel by Jose Montes Camporro

BLACKWATER BAY · A FICTIONAL PLACEOne birthday. Twenty-seven years of lies.
The Blackwater Game by Jose Montes Camporro: a boy above a dark harbour, an envelope and a numbered token.

YOUNG ADULT · MYSTERY · SECRETS

01 / THE NOVEL

The birthday
was planned.
The murder wasn't.

For Theo Bell's sixteenth birthday, the villagers of Blackwater Bay have built him an elaborate murder mystery. The clues are planted. The parts are assigned. Nobody is supposed to die.

Then Theo finds Margaret Vale's body.

Margaret has hidden real clues inside the game. They lead to Eliza, her teenage sister, who supposedly ran away twenty-seven years ago.

With Clara Mercer beside him, Theo follows the trail into a past the village would rather leave alone. But each discovery reaches closer to Clara's family—and the person guiding Theo knows exactly how he thinks.

31 chapters and an epilogueIn EnglishBy Jose Montes Camporro
An imagined stretch of stormy coastline, with sea mist gathering beneath the cliffs.

02 / BLACKWATER BAY

Everyone knows everyone.
No one tells everything.

Wet streets. A harbour clock nobody trusts. A cave the tide can close without warning. Welcome to the village that built Theo a mystery—and left something real inside it.

THE HARBOURTHE SIGNAL HOUSEWIDOW'S MOUTH

Blackwater Bay is fictional. These illustrations evoke the world of the novel.

03 / YOUR TURN

Not every clue
is in the book.

Three small mysteries to get you started.
No need to have read the novel.
No spoilers. Just a little observation.

CLUE 01 / OBSERVESpoiler-free

The harbour clock

The clock has stopped at 23:50.

Inside an envelope, a note reads: “Come back ten minutes after the time shown.”

THE BOOK / YOUR WAY

One mystery.
Three editions.

The same story, from the first envelope
to the last turn of the tide.

01 / DIGITAL

Kindle

£0.99 GBP

Keep Blackwater Bay close. Reflowable text with adjustable type and a linked table of contents.

02 / PAPERBACK

Paperback

A 192-page paperback, printed in black and white on cream paper. A mystery to keep on your shelf.

03 / ILLUSTRATED

Hardcover

A 200-page hardcover edition with eight monochrome illustrations of the world of Blackwater Bay.

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04 / BEYOND THE STORY

A note
for the author.

Jose Montes Camporro

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