One of my holiday reads and such a good one too.
How To Solve Your Own Murder
Kristen Perrin
It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly sixty years later, when Frances is found murdered, like she always said she would be.
In the present day, Annie Adams has been 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 already dead. 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 the danger, she starts to fear she might inherit her aunt’s fate instead of her fortune.
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I first heard about this book after someone sang its praises on social media, and if I remembered who it was, then I would heartily thank them because I adored this book. Especially because I went in thinking there would be one mystery to solve, who killed Frances, when in fact there were many.
This story unfolded brilliantly, it is set between the present day, where Annie is invited to meet with her great aunt Frances and ends up in a race to solve her murder, and in the 1960s through diary entries setting the scene of the past and the events that kickstarted Frances’s fascination with who would kill her.
I loved that Frances was a no-nonsense kind of person and could see through people’s machinations or had an inkling when they weren’t being honest. As much as I was looking forward to Annie pulling the pieces of clues together and figuring out whodunnit, I was excited to get back to Frances’s diary and loved getting the surprise revelations throughout.
Annie was put in such an interesting position, being the outsider in a small town and having to investigate her great-aunt’s murder, with most people in the village being suspects. I liked that Annie was also able to see through some of the people trying to manipulate her into following the wrong leads, and that she had the help of a handsome detective along the way.
Everything about this book was just brilliant: the small town setting, the wide range of characters who all seemed suspicious, the element of competition, and the mysteries that kept piling up. I am glad to see that there is another book featuring these characters because there is definitely more to explore, and I’m looking forward to it.
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Sounds great!
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