How to Solve Your Own Murder

In 1965, a fortune-teller at an English country fair tells young Frances Adams that she will one day be murdered, a prediction Frances spends her life trying to solve before it can come true. Nearly sixty years later, her great-niece Annie is summoned to the village of Castle Knoll, only to arrive and find Frances dead, killed just as the prophecy foretold. Frances's will leaves her fortune and estate to whoever solves her murder within a week. Annie, an aspiring crime writer, digs through her great-aunt's lifelong files alongside a present-day investigation, working a dual timeline full of village secrets, old grudges, and buried motives. Perrin builds a fair-play puzzle in the cozy English-mystery tradition, with a prophecy at its center.