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Every Confessd case, spoiler-free: where it happened, what happened and who is in the room. Who lied, you find out by playing.
The covered veranda of the mine office, a kerosene lamp, monsoon rain drumming on the tin roof.
Wickramasinghe sapphire mine, outside Ratnapura, Sri Lanka, 12:15 am. The iron safe in the mine office is empty.
Lalith WickramasingheOwner of the mine, 61
Tharindu PereraGem cutter at the mine, 34
Siriporn ChaiyasitGem buyer from Bangkok, 46
The judges' tent on the sand, canvas flapping in the wind, the roar of waves breaking on the reef.
Banzai Pipeline, North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, 8:14 am. On the first wave of the final, the center fin of Kai Akana's board, the title favorite, came clean out of its box.
Makoa KealohaSurfboard shaper, 61
Leilani KahaleWater photographer, 29
Brody KeaneAustralian surfer, Kai's rival, 27
The back office of the chocolate shop, smelling of roasted cocoa, praline molds stacked on the shelf.
Declercq Chocolatier, next to the Markt in Bruges, 7:25 pm. Jozef Declercq, a 66-year-old master chocolatier, was found slumped over the marble counter of his workshop.
Liesbeth MaesJozef's business partner, 51
Thibault PeetersApprentice chocolatier, 23
Ekow AnnanCocoa supplier from Ghana, 48
City Hall meeting room, gilded chairs, the echo of the orchestra still drifting in from the hall.
Stockholm City Hall, Sweden, banquet of the Nordstjärna Prize in Chemistry, 10:35 pm. The laureate, Dr. Margit Ekberg, 52, collapsed at the lectern in the middle of her speech.
Tomasz WierzbickiCo-author of the prize-winning research, 45
Gunnar SjöbergMargit's former advisor, 71
Linnea BergBanquet waitress, 26
The museum's restoration workshop, a smell of tar and sawdust, the grey fjord behind the windows.
Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark, 6:10 am. The cleaner found the pedestal of the Ormen's dragon prow empty: carved oak from the 11th century, the most valuable piece in the museum.
Asger HolmThe museum's shipwright, 61
Mikkel BrandtNight guard, 29
Ingrid VestergaardThe museum's chief curator, 48