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A review by daniking
How To Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
5.0
"But above all, I want to solve this puzzle. And I’ve been called on to do just that, the one thing I can’t help doing already. I’m needed. Me. Annie Adams, aspiring murder mystery writer. And I get the sense that something happened here. Not just with Great Aunt Frances yesterday, but a story spanning decades."
Annie Adams is an aspiring writer who is in between jobs. She gets a letter summoning her to her wealthy and reclusive Great Aunt Frances's home, Gravesdown Estate, in the English countryside of Castle Knoll. What was supposed to be a meeting regarding Frances's will turns out to be (quite literally) deadly,
Francis Adams received a cryptic and deadly prophecy in the summer of 1965 and spent decades trying to find out who would supposedly murder her. It was the same year that her childhood friend Emily disappears into thin air. When Frances ends up being murdered it is up to her niece, who never met Frances, to solve her murder.
Castle Knoll isn't so much the sleepy and quaint country town as it appears--there are many secrets and betrayals being kept, and Annie might not only solve her great aunt's murder--but finally find out what happened to Emily after all this time.
I devoured this book! There were so many twists in this book that had me up until the middle of the night because I just had to know what happened next. The author does a great job of giving a picturesque detail of what Castle Knoll and Gravesdown Estate look like.
What made the book even more intriguing is how far Frances went into investigating everyone she had connections with to try to solve her prophesied murder. There were many people who would have something to gain from her death, but who was utterly responsible and did it have any correlation to Emily's disappearance?
"Because I knew, deeper than I’ve ever known anything, that our fates were intertwined—Emily’s and mine. I couldn’t shake the belief that underneath everything, I was really just Emily in disguise."
This book is worth putting on your TBR and I have a feeling we are not done with Castle Knoll and Annie quite yet!
Thank you to NetGalley and Dutton Books for an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. You can purchase How to Solve Your Own Murder on March, 24, 2024!
Annie Adams is an aspiring writer who is in between jobs. She gets a letter summoning her to her wealthy and reclusive Great Aunt Frances's home, Gravesdown Estate, in the English countryside of Castle Knoll. What was supposed to be a meeting regarding Frances's will turns out to be (quite literally) deadly,
Francis Adams received a cryptic and deadly prophecy in the summer of 1965 and spent decades trying to find out who would supposedly murder her. It was the same year that her childhood friend Emily disappears into thin air. When Frances ends up being murdered it is up to her niece, who never met Frances, to solve her murder.
Castle Knoll isn't so much the sleepy and quaint country town as it appears--there are many secrets and betrayals being kept, and Annie might not only solve her great aunt's murder--but finally find out what happened to Emily after all this time.
I devoured this book! There were so many twists in this book that had me up until the middle of the night because I just had to know what happened next. The author does a great job of giving a picturesque detail of what Castle Knoll and Gravesdown Estate look like.
What made the book even more intriguing is how far Frances went into investigating everyone she had connections with to try to solve her prophesied murder. There were many people who would have something to gain from her death, but who was utterly responsible and did it have any correlation to Emily's disappearance?
"Because I knew, deeper than I’ve ever known anything, that our fates were intertwined—Emily’s and mine. I couldn’t shake the belief that underneath everything, I was really just Emily in disguise."
This book is worth putting on your TBR and I have a feeling we are not done with Castle Knoll and Annie quite yet!
Thank you to NetGalley and Dutton Books for an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. You can purchase How to Solve Your Own Murder on March, 24, 2024!