How To Seal Your Own Fate
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Publisher Description
PRE-ORDER HOW TO CHEAT YOUR OWN DEATH, THE LATEST INSTALMENT IN THE CASTLE KNOLL FILES, NOW. OUT APRIL 2026.
The much-anticipated sequel to How To Solve Your Own Murder
'What a great read!' J. M. Hall
'Kept me guessing until the very end' Joanna Wallace
'Thrilling' G. T. Karber
'Original, atmospheric' Ian Moore
Annie thought the murders were over.
She was wrong.
It is autumn in Castle Knoll and Annie Adams is busy settling into her new home. She doesn't find Gravesdown Hall particularly cosy, especially since she found two dead bodies there over the summer. What's more, ever since she arrived in the village, Annie has had the creeping sense she's being watched.
Lonely, and desperate for some company, Annie starts talking to a stranger she meets in the grounds of the estate. The striking old woman introduces herself as Peony Lane, the fortune-teller who predicted Great Aunt Frances' murder all those years ago. And now she has a fortune to tell Annie.
Desperate not to fall into the same trap as Frances, Annie flees Peony Lane, refusing to hear any of her grim predictions. But she can't outrun Peony for long, as hours later she finds her, dead on the floor of Gravesdown Hall, a ruby-hilted dagger plunged into her back.
But who killed the mysterious fortune teller and why? And can Frances' library of evidence help Annie solve the case?
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Perrin's atmospheric if overstuffed sequel to How to Solve Your Own Murder finds heiress Annie Adams settling into her new life as owner of the Gravesdown Estate near the English village of Castle Knoll. The grounds, along with a vast 17-bedroom country house, were left to Annie by her great-aunt Frances, who spent her life cataloging the transgressions of her friends and neighbors in a series of personal diaries. Past and present collide when Peony Lane—a local fortune teller who, back in 1965, predicted Frances's murder—suddenly arrives at the estate. She tells Annie that she needs to investigate the life and death of Olivia Gravesdown, a member of the family that once owned Annie's estate who died under suspicious circumstances many years earlier. A few hours later, Penny is found dead in Annie's solarium, an ornate knife protruding from her back. Chapters following Annie's investigation and detailing her complicated love life alternate with excerpts from Frances's 1967 diaries, which illuminate Frances's own romantic entanglements and touch on a horrific car accident that claimed the lives of three members of the Gravesdown family. Perrin mixes gothic and cozy tropes with a steady hand, and Annie is a suitably plucky heroine, but a few too many red herrings muck up the plot. Still, it's an entertaining ride.
