How to Solve Your Own M**der and D is for Death

Join us for a special lunchtime talk with not one but two crime authors, Harriet F. Townson and Kristen Perrin, who will be talking about their new books D is for Death and How to Solve Your Own M**der.

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Harriet F. Townson, D is for Death

About the Author: Harriet F Townson is the pen name of bestselling author Harriet Evans. She has written thirteen novels, several of which have been Sunday Times bestsellers, two of which were Richard and Judy Book Club selections and one which won the Good Housekeeping Book of the Year. She lives in Bath with her family and in her scant spare time rereads Dorothy L Sayers.

About the Book: D is for Death

The first in a brand-new, wildly fun historical crime series from bestselling author Harriet Evans, featuring a character with the spark and gusto of Enola Holmes and the detective skill of Miss Marple.

1935. Dora Wildwood is escaping a most unsuitable marriage. She's on the first train to London, having smuggled herself out of the house at dead of night, like all the best books. She plans to go straight to her godmother Lady Dreda Uglow, the only woman she knows who seems to live life on her own terms, and ask to stay.

But unsuitable marriages usually feature unsuitable fiancés, and Dora's is more persistent than most. As she flees across town to outrun the loathsome Charles Silk-Butters, Dora ducks into the London Library to hide, asking the quizzical but kind Ben Stark and the clever Miss Amani for help. And it is there, surrounded by books, where she should feel most safe, that Dora Wildwood most unfortunately stumbles across her first dead body.

Having been thrown into the middle of a M**der scene, it's now impossible to walk away. Indeed, Dora's certain she will prove an invaluable help to the gruff Detective Inspector Fox who swiftly arrives on the scene. For as everyone knows, it's the woman in the room who always sees more than anyone else: and no one more so than Dora herself...

Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own M**der

About the author: Kristen Perrin is originally from Seattle, Washington, where she spent several years working as a bookseller before moving to the UK to do a master's and a PhD. She lives with her family in Surrey, where she can be found poking around vintage bookstores, stomping in the mud with her two kids, and collecting too many plants.

About the Book: How to Solve Your Own M**der

Frances always knew she’d be murdered… she was right.

In 1965, when Frances Adams was seventeen, a fortune teller told her that one day she'd be murdered. Thus began a life of trying to prevent the crime that would be her eventual demise.

No one took Frances seriously for sixty years - until, of course, she was murdered. But for Frances, being the village busybody was a form of insurance. She'd spent a lifetime compiling dirt on every person she met, just in case they might turn out to be her killer. In the heart of her sprawling country estate lies an eccentric library of detective work, where the right person could step in and use her findings to solve her M**der.

When her great-niece Annie arrives from London and discovers that Frances' worst fear has come true, Annie is thrust into her great-aunt's last act of revenge against her sceptical friends and family. Frances' will stipulates that the person who solves her M**der inherits her millions, and she's challenged a group that includes Annie to prove to the world that Frances was right all along about her future.

Can Annie unravel the mystery and find justice for Frances, or will digging up the past lead her into the path of the killer?

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