In this delightfully humorous and heartfelt new novel from the author of the “bittersweet web page-turner” (The New York Times) The Last Book Party, an American female travels to the English nation-state while she discovers tickets her overdue mother had purchased for a murder thriller simulation in a small British city.
When thirty-four-12 months-vintage Cath loses her by and large absentee mom, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-in search of way of life that her mother once led.
But whilst she’s forced to go through her mom’s matters one afternoon, Cath is confused to locate tickets for an upcoming “homicide week” in England’s Peak.
A whole city has come collectively to level a faux homicide thriller to draw tourism to their old fashioned hamlet. Baffled however helplessly intrigued by means of her mother’s secret purchase, Cath comes to a decision to go at the trip herself—and begins a adventure she never ought to have anticipated.
Teaming up with her cottage-buddies, each ardent thriller fanatics—Wyatt Green, 40, who works unhappily in his husband’s birding keep, and Amity Clark, fifty, a divorced romance author suffering along with her novels—Cath units approximately fixing the “crime” and starts to resolve shocking truths approximately her mother along the manner.
Amidst a fling—or something more—with the handsome nearby maker of artisanal gin, Cath and her irresistibly captivating fellow sleuths will find this week of fake murder may additionally assist them withstand a totally real crossroads of their personal lives.
Witty, sensible, and deliciously escapist, Welcome to Murder Week is a clean, creative twist at the murder mystery and a touching portrayal of one daughter’s reckoning along with her grief, her beyond—and her personal budding feel of adventure.
