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 mothers things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming murder week in Englands 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 mothers 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 husbands 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 daughters reckoning with her grief, her pastand her own budding sense of adventure.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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 mothers things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming murder week in Englands 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 mothers 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 husbands 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 daughters reckoning with her grief, her pastand her own budding sense of adventure.
Genre: Cozy Mystery