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Kristen Perrin, author of How to Solve Your Own Murder

It’s 1965, and teenager Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’ night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly 60 years later, when Frances is found murdered. In the present day, Annie Adams has been summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances. But by the time Annie arrives, Frances is already dead. Annie is determined to catch the killer, but thanks to Frances’ lifelong habit of digging up secrets and lies, it seems every endearing and eccentric villager just might have a motive for her murder.

Week of March 24, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of March 24th include ONE PERFECT COUPLE by Ruth Ware, a high-tension thriller that follows five couples trapped on a storm-swept island as a killer stalks among them; CLOSE TO DEATH, the ingenious fifth literary whodunit in Anthony Horowitz’s Hawthorne and Horowitz series, in which Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case --- a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community where suspects abound; Leigh Bardugo's THE FAMILIAR, a spellbinding fantasy that centers on Luzia, a servant in the household of an impoverished Spanish nobleman who reveals a talent for little miracles; REAL AMERICANS, an exhilarating novel of American identity from Rachel Khong that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?; and A GOOD BAD BOY by Margaret Wappler, an artful and contemplative tribute to late actor Luke Perry, best known for playing loner rebel Dylan McKay on "Beverly Hills, 90210."