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How to Solve Your Own Murder

A Novel
Pages
369
Published
2024
Language
English

Synopsis

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Finalist for 2024 | A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist | A GMA Buzz Pick | A USA Today Bestseller One of Amazon's Top 10 Best Books of April, One of Jimmy Fallon's favorite books for Spring 2024, The Top LibraryReads pick for March 2024, A Publishers Marketplace 2024 BuzzBook, One of NPR's Books We Love Frances Adams always said she’d be murdered. She was right. In 1965, Frances Adams is at an English country fair where a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. It is a prediction that sparks her life’s work—trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet. Nearly sixty years later, Annie Adams is summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances. But by the time Annie arrives in the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, Frances is found murdered, just like she always said she would be. Annie is determined to catch the killer, but thanks to Frances’s lifelong habit of digging up secrets and lies, it seems every endearing and eccentric villager might just have a motive for her murder. Can Annie safely unravel the dark mystery at the heart of Castle Knoll, or will dredging up the past throw her into the path of a killer? As Annie gets closer to the truth, and closer to danger, she starts to fear she might inherit her aunt’s fate instead of her fortune.

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About the author

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Kristen Perrin

Kristen Perrin writes mysteries that often feature small towns and dark secrets. Her book, How to Solve Your Own Murder, is a popular example of her work in the genre.

Characters

Annie Adams (Castle Knoll Files)Protagonist

Aspiring mystery writer and great-niece of Frances Adams; investigates Frances's murder in present-day Castle Knoll.

Frances AdamsSupporting

Wealthy, reclusive great-aunt whose 1965 fortune-telling prediction of her own murder comes true nearly sixty years later.

Emily SparrowSupporting

One of Frances's two teenage best friends in 1965 Castle Knoll; her decades-old disappearance is the case entwined with Frances's murder.

Detective Rowan CraneSupporting

Local Castle Knoll police detective investigating Frances's murder; becomes an ally to Annie.

All characters in How to Solve Your Own Murder

Frequently asked questions

  • Is How to Solve Your Own Murder part of a series?

    Yes. It is the first book in Kristen Perrin's Castle Knoll Files series, which continues with further mysteries set in the same English village.

  • Who killed Frances Adams?
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