How to Solve Your Own Murder
Frances Adams always said she’d be murdered. She was right.
In 1965, Frances Adams is at an English country fair where a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. It is a prediction that sparks her life’s work—trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet.
Nearly sixty years later, Annie Adams is summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances. But by the time Annie arrives in the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, Frances is found murdered, just like she always said she would be. Annie is determined to catch the killer, but thanks to Frances’s lifelong habit of digging up secrets and lies, it seems every endearing and eccentric villager might just have a motive for her murder.
Can Annie safely unravel the dark mystery at the heart of Castle Knoll, or will dredging up the past throw her into the path of a killer? As Annie gets closer to the truth, and closer to danger, she starts to fear she might inherit her aunt’s fate instead of her fortune.
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Kristen Perrin
In the sleepy English village of Castle Knoll, secrets simmer beneath the surface—and Kristen Perrin knows just how to stir them up.
A transplant from Seattle to Surrey, Perrin writes mysteries that blend the charm of the English countryside with the thrill of long-buried lies coming to light. Her debut adult novel, How to Solve Your Own Murder, is anything but conventional. It begins not with a body, but a prophecy—a chilling prediction made sixty years earlier that finally comes true. What follows is a puzzle-box narrative told across dual timelines, anchored by Annie Adams, a reluctant sleuth pulled into her great-aunt’s decades-old death and an inheritance game with murder at its core.
The Castle Knoll Files
In the village of Castle Knoll, secrets aren’t just whispered—they’re buried beneath the surface, waiting to be unearthed. This is a place where time seems to stand still, yet the past clings to every corner, shaping the present in ways no one expects. The Castle Knoll Files series invites readers into this atmospheric world, where every mystery is a tangled web of forgotten history, cryptic prophecies, and deeply buried truths.
The Castle Knoll Files consists of three books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
