

For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club, an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate.... Now it's up to her great-niece to catch the killer.
It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly sixty years later, when Frances is found murdered, like she always said she would be.
In the present day, Annie Adams has been 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 already dead. 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 the danger, she starts to fear she might inherit her aunt’s fate instead of her fortune.
For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club, an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate.... Now it's up to her great-niece to catch the killer.
It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly sixty years later, when Frances is found murdered, like she always said she would be.
In the present day, Annie Adams has been 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 already dead. 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 the danger, she starts to fear she might inherit her aunt’s fate instead of her fortune.
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Dual-timeline mystery narratives and village whodunits gain an intricate puzzle structure in the Castle Knoll Murder Mystery series, which pairs long-buried English secrets with modern amateur sleuthing. Author Kristen Perrin made her adult fiction debut with the bestselling mystery novel How to Solve Your Own Murder, centering on a sixty-year-old prophecy and a high-stakes investigation led by an heiress seeking justice for her late relative.
Perrin grew up in Seattle, Washington, where she worked for several years as a bookseller before moving to the United Kingdom to pursue a master's degree and a PhD. Her deep interest in stories centered on mysteries led her to begin her professional writing career in middle-grade fiction. Her debut series in that category, Attie and the World Breakers, reached an international audience through translations in German, Dutch, and Polish.
In March 2024, Perrin transitioned to adult fiction with How to Solve Your Own Murder, published by Quercus. The novel became a New York Times, USA Today, IndieBound, and Der Spiegel bestseller, earning selection as a Good Morning America Buzz Pick, an ALA Alex Award winner in 2025, and a longlist spot for the CWA Golden Dagger Award. Perrin resides with her family in Surrey, England, where she continues writing mystery novels while spending time visiting vintage bookstores, exploring outdoors with her two children, and growing her plant collection.
Perrin's mystery fiction is characterized by dual-timeline structures, intricate clue weaving, and a balance between lighthearted humor and suspense. Her work frequently contrasts historical events from the 1960s with contemporary investigations in rural English settings, exploring how family secrets, unresolved rivalries, and old grudges shape lives across generations.
1 books in catalog
Dual-timeline mystery narratives and village whodunits gain an intricate puzzle structure in the Castle Knoll Murder Mystery series, which pairs long-buried English secrets with modern amateur sleuthing. Author Kristen Perrin made her adult fiction debut with the bestselling mystery novel How to Solve Your Own Murder, centering on a sixty-year-old prophecy and a high-stakes investigation led by an heiress seeking justice for her late relative.
Perrin grew up in Seattle, Washington, where she worked for several years as a bookseller before moving to the United Kingdom to pursue a master's degree and a PhD. Her deep interest in stories centered on mysteries led her to begin her professional writing career in middle-grade fiction. Her debut series in that category, Attie and the World Breakers, reached an international audience through translations in German, Dutch, and Polish.
In March 2024, Perrin transitioned to adult fiction with How to Solve Your Own Murder, published by Quercus. The novel became a New York Times, USA Today, IndieBound, and Der Spiegel bestseller, earning selection as a Good Morning America Buzz Pick, an ALA Alex Award winner in 2025, and a longlist spot for the CWA Golden Dagger Award. Perrin resides with her family in Surrey, England, where she continues writing mystery novels while spending time visiting vintage bookstores, exploring outdoors with her two children, and growing her plant collection.
Perrin's mystery fiction is characterized by dual-timeline structures, intricate clue weaving, and a balance between lighthearted humor and suspense. Her work frequently contrasts historical events from the 1960s with contemporary investigations in rural English settings, exploring how family secrets, unresolved rivalries, and old grudges shape lives across generations.
Castle Knoll Files
Castle Knoll Files