The Author's Guide to Murder: A Novel

Three New York Times bestselling novelists, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White, have written a clever, engrossing whodunnit with a heart. When a famous writer is found dead in a book-lined study of a remote Scottish castle, three American novelists become prime suspects. Detective Chief Inspector Euan McIntosh, a local with no love for literary Americans, finds himself with the unenviable task of extracting statements from the women. The prime suspects are Kat de Noir, Cassie Pringle, and Emma Endicott, who claim to be best friends writing a book together but whose stories about how they know Brett Saffron Presley don't quite line up. The novel is a crafty locked-room mystery, a pointed satire about the literary world, and a tale of unexpected friendship and romance.

Format: Hardback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 05 December 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A pure delight from start to finish! Williams, White, and Willig are in top form in this clever, engrossing whodunnit with a heart. — Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of The New Couple in 5B Three beloved New York Times bestselling novelists, one marvelously entertaining locked-room whodunnit! When a famous writer is found dead in the book-lined study of a remote Scottish castle, three very different American novelists become prime suspects! Agatha Christie meets Murder, She Wrote in this witty locked-room mystery and literary satire by New York Times bestselling team of novelists: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. Theres 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 towers book-lined study. Years ago, Presley purchased the castle as a showpiece for his brand and to lure paying guests with a taste for writerly glamour. Now it seems, the castle has done him in…or, possibly, one of the castles guests has. Detective Chief Inspector Euan McIntosh, a local with no love for literary Americans, finds himself with the unenviable task of extracting statements from three American lady novelists. 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 dont quite line up, and the detective is getting increasingly suspicious. Why did the authors r.

Weight: 534g
Dimension: 237 x 164 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780063259867