Mysteries that engage, entertain & capture attention!
Make your events stand out in a sea of predictable gatherings. Our fun, affordable & adaptable Murder Mystery Scripts weave suspense, spark laughter and are utterly captivating.
Break through creative blocks, unearth buried inspiration, and solve the mystery of your stalled manuscript. Trust your gut. Manage your mind. Know where you’re going and the words will follow.
Unlock the world of secret agents & action adventure for your kids. Let them crack codes, hunt clues & outsmart villains at Spy School or solve a crime scene investigation. Zap boredom into oblivion.
Unmask the secrets of mystery-making games, scripts, stories or novels. Follow one of our step-by-step guides as we decode the art of DIY mystery making! It’s easier than you think!
About Me
Hey, Hi! It’s good to see you here.
I’m Juanita.
Diving into Murder Mystery Interactive Entertainment in 1988 ignited my passion for crafting engaging whodunits. Faced with creating custom scripts for corporate events, I developed a system for rapidly writing fair-play mysteries. This led me to devour and dissect works by Agatha Christie, Rex Stout, and other Golden Age masters.
My analytical mind thrives on breaking complex processes into digestible steps. While mysteries are my forte, I’ve discovered a knack for reigniting inspiration in writers across all genres. Whether it’s plot intricacies, clever clues, or streamlined writing processes, I’m passionate about illuminating the path forward. Let’s talk story craft and rekindle the joy in your work-in-progress. Together, we’ll set your narrative ablaze with possibility.
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Testimonials
Hilarious! Entertaining! Suspenseful!
Juanita has made our Murder Mystery Dinners distinctive and successful. Our guests have enjoyed comedy, suspense and musical contributions from start to finish.
Kim Lawson
Sales & Marketing Manager
BEST WESTERN
Rainbow Country Inn
Thank you for making our Christmas party the best it has ever been. By having your great actors creating situations and hilarious scenes, it prompted our staff to stay and dance (they never dance). Thank you again for making our evening special.
Lisa Wills, Librarian
GOLDER & ASSOCIATES
This Murder Mystery was developed specifically for Capilano. It needed to be created, with certain objectives in mind, within a short space of time. Our expectations for the murder mystery evening were exceeded.
Francine Shefley
Marketing
CAPILANO SUSPENSION BRIDGE
Who knew we all had so much energy and that we had so much hidden talent in the company!!
You are a fabulous group and I look forward to working with you again sometime in the future.
Nancy Salmon
On behalf of the Social Committee
7-ELEVEN CANADA, INC
As a UFO investigator and TV personality featured on networks like GAIA, 4Biddenknowledge.Tv, Discovery+, Fox Tubi, Amazon Video, and History Channel’s Ancient Aliens, I faced a new challenge when creating content for my YouTube Channel. Juanita’s expertise and kindness were exceptional, and I couldn’t help but wonder how she possessed such extensive knowlege and was so genuinely helpful. The information presented broke things down in great detail, exactly what I needed. Her support meant the world to me.
Roderick Martin
I‘m working my way through your book and I already see an improvement in my story and the charts are stimulating my creativity – it’s an answered prayer really, finding your book.
I am truly grateful to have found you and your book, and to be learning form someone who put so much love, work and dedication into the craft.
JL
I am a video game director creating a mystery video game for an Arabic audience. I do not come from a mystery writing background, and although I’ve read quite a few, I needed help getting set up to write my own.
Juanita has been responsive and very helpful. Her book is incredible. It is the complete manual for writing mysteries. Not only does she explain the concepts and theory, but she includes enough examples and lists to make it inspiring.
Hadi Q
My historic site hired Ms Juanita as a consultant and could not have been more pleased. We needed help crafting the plot and characters of an interactive mystery program, and she delivered.
She helped us understand physical and verbal cues, ways to tie in dialogue to interconnect our characters, how to avoid pitfalls of common mystery novices. I’ve seen examples of her other work as well, and her ability to help you design clues if so desired is pretty impressive.
Teresa Piece
Auburn Heights Historic Mansion
We had so much fun at the party and it was really neat to see the kids concentrating and working together to solve the mysteries.
It truly was a unique experience and I’m so happy I was able to give my son the detective experience he has been wishing for. Even our dog was excited about the (dog biscuit) clues — so much so that she had to be locked up in the bathroom lest she eat the evidence …
Alison E
Ms. Violini’s book (Clue Trails) has shined a light on why I stalled. The book provides clear direction on building the ‘bones’ of a thorough mystery, according for the MMMs and usable guidance on clues. Her easy-to-understand examples and fill-in-the-blank diagrams have led me back to my library of stalled stories and given me a trail to follow – a Clue Trail.
Daniel Hafertepe
We just used the “Easy Money” script for a murder mystery dinner theater and auction fundraiser at our church. Our fundraiser went so well, and we raised over $18,000 for our local and foreign mission projects! The crowd LOVED it!
Sandy Mitchell
CLUE TRAIL is the best book on writing a mystery that I have read, and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to create a fairplay mystery! I have read thousands of mysteries and numerous craft books on story and mystery writing. But still, I struggled with the apparent complexity of managing all the suspects and clues. CLUE TRAIL demystifies mystery plotting by outling a step-by-step process that is more clear and illuminating than anything I have read before. Do yourself a favor and buy it!
Cathy Walsh