Mystery and Thriller Clue Tracker | Red Herring and Fair-Play Audit Dashboard, Suspicion Curve, Plant & Payoff Planner for Writers

✦ Stop losing track of who knows what

An interactive HTML dashboard that follows every clue from the page you planted it on to the page it finally pays off — so your ending lands as inevitable instead of arriving out of nowhere.

Built for mystery, thriller, crime and detective novelists: master clue ledger, red herring tracker, suspect board, fair-play audit, plant-and-payoff chart, and reveal sequence planner.

✦ WHY THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT

Most plotting tools stop at a suspect list. This one audits your fairness.

It measures whether the reader was given a real chance to solve the case, tracks how suspicion rises and falls chapter by chapter, and shows you every clue you planted and never paid off.

✦ WHAT IS INSIDE

→ Case Overview: the shape of your whole mystery at a glance, from crime to confession
→ Master Clue Ledger: every clue, where it was planted, who saw it, and what it proves
→ Clue Type Grid: physical, testimonial, circumstantial or behavioral, so no single category carries all the weight
→ Red Herrings: every false lead, who it points at, and the moment it gets honestly discredited
→ Suspect Board: motive, means, opportunity, alibi and secret for every suspect, side by side
→ Fair-Play Audit: confirm the reader had access to every fact the detective used, before the reveal
→ Plant & Payoff: each setup paired with its payoff, and the ones still hanging
→ Suspicion Curve: who the reader suspects across the book, so the misdirection is shaped on purpose
→ Timeline Log: what actually happened, hour by hour, behind the story the reader is told
→ Reveal Sequence: order your disclosures so each answer raises the next question
→ Loose Ends: unanswered questions caught before your beta readers catch them
→ Revision Notes: continuity fixes and rewrite decisions in one place instead of scattered comments

✦ THE CASE PANEL COUNTS, IT DOES NOT GRADE

Four readings on the overview: clue coverage, fair-play readiness, herrings resolved, loose ends closed.

Before you have logged anything, they say **nothing logged yet** — not zero percent. An empty case file is not a failing one, and a tool that opens by telling you that you are at nought is a tool you close again.

Once you are working, they are plain ratios of what you entered. Nothing is weighted behind your back, and nothing punishes you for writing a problem down.

✦ WHO IT IS FOR

→ Mystery and cozy mystery novelists
→ Thriller, suspense and psychological thriller writers
→ Crime and detective fiction authors
→ Screenwriters plotting a whodunit
→ NaNoWriMo writers who want the puzzle to still hold up in December
→ Anyone who has finished a draft and realized the killer had no reason to be there

Genre neutral within mystery and thriller: cozy, noir, procedural, legal and domestic suspense all fit.

✦ HOW IT WORKS

→ One HTML file that opens in any modern browser — desktop, laptop, tablet or phone
→ No account, no subscription, no internet connection needed. Ever, not just after download
→ Everything you type stays in your own browser, on your own device. Nothing is uploaded
→ Export a backup file any time, and import it on another computer — the whole case file moves with you
→ Six color themes and three interface languages (English, Português, Italiano)
→ Saves as you type
→ Use it for every book you write

✦ WHAT YOU RECEIVE

→ One interactive HTML dashboard with all twelve sections
→ An illustrated user guide
→ Your license

✦ PLEASE NOTE

This is an interactive dashboard, not a printable planner — it is built to be used on screen.

Your work lives in the browser you open the file with, so use the same one each time, and export a backup before switching computers.

Instant digital download; nothing ships. For personal writing use only — files may not be resold, shared or redistributed. Because downloads are instant, all sales are final, but message me if anything does not open correctly.

Write the mystery your reader can almost solve.

AI-assisted: product content, code and listing images are produced with AI tools. Concept, structure and creative direction are my own.