Synopsis

In this delightfully funny and heartfelt new novel from the author of the bittersweet page-turner (The New York Times) The Last Book Party, an American woman travels to the English countryside when she discovers tickets her late mother had purchased for a murder mystery simulation in a small British town.When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when shes forced to go through her mothers things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming murder week in Englands Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mothers secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herselfand begins a journey she never could have anticipated. Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery loversWyatt Green, forty, who works unhappily in his husbands birding store, and Amity Clark, fifty, a divorced romance writer struggling with her novelsCath sets about solving the crime and begins to unravel shocking truths about her mother along the way. Amidst a flingor something morewith the handsome local maker of artisanal gin, Cath and her irresistibly charming fellow sleuths will find this week of fake murder may help them face up to a very real crossroads in their own lives. Witty, wise, and deliciously escapist, Welcome to Murder Week is a fresh, inventive twist on the murder mystery and a touching portrayal of one daughters reckoning with her grief, her pastand her own budding sense of adventure.

About The Author

Karen Dukess is the author ofThe Last Book Partyand Welcome to Murder Week. Karen has been a newspaper reporter in Florida, a magazine publisher in Russia, and a speechwriter on gender equality for the United Nations. She has a degree in Russian studies from Brown University and a masters in journalism from Columbia University. She lives outside of New York City and in Truro on Cape Cod, where she interviews some of todays most acclaimed writers as host of the Castle Hill Author Talks for the Truro Center for the Arts.Find out more at KarenDukess.com.