Welcome to Murder Week (eBook)

A Novel

Karen Dukess (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
304 Seiten
Gallery/Scout Press (Verlag)
978-1-6680-7979-9 (ISBN)

Infos

USA TODAY BESTSELLER In this delightfully funny and heartfelt new novel from the author of the ';bittersweet page-turner' (The New York Times) The Last Book Party, an American woman travels to the English countryside when she discovers tickets her late mother had purchased for a murder mystery simulation in a small British town.When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when she's forced to go through her mother's things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming ';murder week' in England's Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mother's secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herselfand begins a journey she never could have anticipated. Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery loversWyatt Green, forty, who works unhappily in his husband's birding store, and Amity Clark, fifty, a divorced romance writer struggling with her novelsCath sets about solving the ';crime' and begins to unravel shocking truths about her mother along the way. Amidst a flingor something morewith the handsome local maker of artisanal gin, Cath and her irresistibly charming fellow sleuths will find this week of fake murder may help them face up to a very real crossroads in their own lives. Witty, wise, and deliciously escapist, Welcome to Murder Week is a fresh, inventive twist on the murder mystery and a touching portrayal of one daughter's reckoning with her grief, her pastand her own budding sense of adventure.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.6.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror
• ISBN-10: 1-6680-7979-8 / 1668079798
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6680-7979-9 / 9781668079799