Title: The Author’s Guide to Murder
Authors: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willing, Karen White
Publisher: William Morrow
Genre: Cozy Mystery
I want to wish ‘Team W’ (Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White) a HUGE Happy Pub Day! Launching a book is never easy, but launching it on Election Day is not for the faint of heart! Give these ladies some love today!
Thank you to @uplitreads + @williammorrowbooks for my #gifted copy.
Cozy Mystery + Satire = FUN
The Author’s Guide to Murder is compared both to Agatha Christie or Murder She Wrote. I can sort of see the Murder She Wrote comparison, but it didn’t really give me Agatha Christie vibes except for the use of ‘red herrings’. Read this one for it’s own unique literary satire.
Explores:
✔️Complexities of friendships + relationships
✔️Professional Rivalries
Offers:
✔️A glimpse of the chaotic lives of authors
✔️An Atmospheric environment in a remote Scottish village + castle
I’ll admit it took me a moment to settle in with these characters (Both main and side) and the storyline, but as each of these three American authors in this story begin to reveal motives and secrets, I was all in! How clever that three authors wrote about three authors. It almost felt meta like.
✍️ Mini Summary ✍️
There’s been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland. Literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley has been found dead—under bizarre circumstances—in the castle tower’s book-lined study.
The prime suspects are Kat de Noir, a slinky erotica writer; Cassie Pringle, a Southern mom of six juggling multiple cozy mystery series; and Emma Endicott, a New England blue blood and author of critically acclaimed historical fiction. The women claim to be best friends writing a book together, but the authors’ stories about how they know Brett Saffron Presley don’t quite line up…
Why did the authors really come to Castle Kinloch? And what really happened the night of the great Kinloch ceilidh, when Brett Saffron Presley skipped the folk dancing for a rendezvous with death?
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