How to Solve Your Own Murder
Books | Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth
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Kristen Perrin
A Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Finalist for 2024AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA Goodreads Choice Awards FinalistA GMA Buzz Pick!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 LoveNamed most anticipated by: Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, BookRiot, BookBub, The Nerd Daily, Shelf Reflection, Novel Suspects, Borrow Read Repeat, The Everygirl, The Scout Guide, The Real Book SpyFor fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club, an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate.... Now it's up to her great-niece to catch the killer. 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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Author
Kristen Perrin
Pages
368
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2024-03-26
ISBN
0593474015 9780593474013
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"A bit slow to get into, but once the murder mystery begins, I was progressively hooked. My big compliment to this book is that I really enjoyed the back and forth between timelines, (I'm thinking that style just works best with mystery novels). The mystery wasn't obvious, and though it does get solved, theres somehow a sequel? Not sure how this will be continued, but the idea of a sequel is curious enough for me to check it out once it's published. 4/5🌹"
Mare
"It was a cute cozy mystery"
Sandy Lopez
"How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin 4/5. ⭐⭐⭐⭐
This read like a proper BBC murder mystery with Agatha Christie on speed dial.
I enjoyed almost all the characters and the setting was nicely small town, and everyone knows everyone else's secrets.
Lots of twists and turns and little crimes hiding within larger crimes.
I was able to guess the murder in about halfway through but it was still entertaining and like the MC I second-guessed my theory at every turn.
I'll probably read book two eventually cause I liked this author's prose."
Sarah
"Very cozy mystery. I read it in two sittings (I have a cold/flu and needed sleep). It was engaging and moved quickly. Usually I am not a big fan of multiple timelines, but it worked in this book. Very little language, or gore. I really hope this becomes a series."
Erin Doucette
"A very fun book and I admit…I didn’t solve the murder myself!"
Heidi Oneil
"This book is incredibly engaging, I really couldn’t put it down. It’s an easy read that I feel is getting me out of a reading slump. I definitely recommend it to someone trying to get into mysteries! "
Mr.Pickles
"This was a little hard to get into because there are so many characters to keep track of. The story line is good and it definitely keeps you guessing. "
Sheli Wilburn
"It felt like barely anything happened for the first 150-200 pages. I was more interested in the flashbacks than the rest of it. I think that’s the only thing that kept me reading. "
Lilogin
"It would have been better if the writing style was more mature"
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Daniela
"3⭐️
I really liked the premise of this, especially with the dual timelines that were set up just as Annie was reading the past diary entries, but I just wasn’t ever on the edge of my seat to read more or find out what happened. Also, because we had two timelines, and there’s quite a few overlapping characters, I had a hard time getting everyone’s names straight in the beginning. "
mollie :)
