The Author's Guide to Murder

The Author's Guide to Murder

Beatriz Williams

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Agatha Christie meets Murder, She Wrote meets #MeToo in this witty locked room mystery and literary satire by New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. Thereā€™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 deadā€”under bizarre circumstancesā€”in the castle towerā€™s 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 inā€¦or, possibly, one of the castleā€™s guests has. Detective Chief Inspector Euan McIntosh, a local with no love for this literary American show-off (or Americans in general), finds himself with the unenviable task of extracting statements from three American lady novelists.  The prime suspects are Kat de Noir, a slinky, sexy 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 a historical novel about the castleā€™s lurid past and its debauched laird, who himself ended up creatively murdered. But the authorsā€™ stories about how they know Brett Saffron Presley donā€™t quite line up, and the detective is getting increasingly suspicious.  Why did the authors really come to Castle Kinloch? Is the murder of the long-ago laird somehow connected with the playboy authorā€™s unfortunate demise? And what really happened the night of the great Kinloch ceilidh, when Brett Saffron Presley skipped the folk dancing for a rendezvous with death?  A crafty locked-room mystery, a pointed satire about the literary world, and a tale of unexpected friendship and romanceā€”this novel has it all, as only three bestselling authors can tell it! 


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    I honestly really only enjoyed the last 1/4 of this. The story was a bit dull and I didnā€™t care for any of the characters really.

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    Can I give this negative stars? the incoherent plot doesn't deserve .5.

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