How to Cheat Your Own Death
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How to Cheat Your Own Death
How to Cheat Your Own Death
The much-anticipated sequel to How to Seal Your Own Fate! A cosy crime novel with a killer hook.
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'A slice of pure murder mystery joy' Kelly Mullen, author of This Is Not A Game
'A mystery with razor-sharp stakes. I was enthralled . . . A total pageturner!' Emily Freud, author of The Cliffhanger
The latest instalment in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Castle Knoll Murder Mystery series, in which Annie Adams and her Great Aunt Frances team up across decades to solve two interlocking murders.
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LAURA NEVER MEANT TO LIE. BUT OLD HABITS DIE HARD.
When Annie Adams heads to London to visit her mother, Laura, the last thing she expects to find is a dead body. Least of all for it to be Fliss, the budding artist Laura had just taken under her wing.
Annie is no stranger to murder - after all, she's solved a few cases already. And something about the way Fliss died feels familiar. She's seen a case like this before. Or read about it, rather, in the journals of her dead Great Aunt Frances, whose close friend was killed in the 1960s in the exact same way: with her heart surgically removed from her chest.
As threats pile up on Laura's doorstep, it soon becomes clear that she's next, and that she's hiding something . . . With her mother's life on the line, can Annie find the killer before it's too late?
From the gritty streets of 1960s Soho to the lofty galleries of present-day West London, follow Annie and Frances as they race to bring a killer to justice.
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Praise for the Castle Knoll Files
'VERY funny' Jennie Godfrey
'Plenty of twists and red herrings' Guardian
'Smart, twisty, and original' Heat
'Thrilling' G. T. Karber
'Superb' Glamour
'Wildly original' Elly Griffiths
Series: The Castle Knoll Files
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529445688
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 April 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Quercus Publishing
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 336
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. How To Solve Your Own Murder is her debut adult novel.
Also by Kristen Perrin
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