It is the Year of the Wood Dragon, and the ingenious Mike Brink has been invited to Tokyo, Japan to open the legendary Dragon Box, a mysterious nineteenth-century puzzle that has remained unsolved for over 150 years. One wrong move and Brink will face death, but he isn’t the only one who desperately wants the puzzle solved.

THE PUZZLE BOX by Danielle Trussoni is the sequel thriller to THE PUZZLE MASTER, but I found that it can be read as a standalone!

I enjoyed THE PUZZLE BOX immensely - we move from New York to Tokyo and both places were really fleshed out and I felt like I was there in the moment - and the puzzles were extremely clever, while also dripping with history and lore.

This book read like a movie and I could picture every scene in detail and the short chapters kept the story moving at a quick pace!

I wasn’t the biggest fan of the first book, but this one REALLY stepped up the game for me and was a very fun read!

Thanks to NetGalley and Random House for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Publication Date: October 8