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How to Solve Your Own Murder

by Kristen Perrin

A decades-old prediction becomes a present-day investigation

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  • Award recognition

    A Goodreads Choice Awards finalist

    The book is identified as a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist.

  • Bestseller

    A New York Times bestseller

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    A 2024 Jimmy Fallon's Book Club finalist

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A decades-old prediction becomes a present-day investigation

In 1965, a fortune-teller predicts that Frances Adams will be murdered, setting Frances on a lifelong effort to solve the crime before it happens. Nearly sixty years later, her great-niece Annie arrives at Frances’s English country estate after being summoned there—and finds her aunt dead. The investigation draws Annie into the secrets of Castle Knoll, where Frances’s history of uncovering other people’s lies leaves several villagers with possible motives. The novel links a long-anticipated murder mystery with Annie’s search through her family’s past and the village’s buried secrets.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy amateur-sleuth mysteries centered on a murder investigation.
  • Readers interested in English village settings and secrets that span generations.
  • Readers who like mysteries that connect family history with questions of motive.

Themes

Murder investigationFamily historySecrets and liesPrediction and fate

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Book overview

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 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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