The Author's Guide to Murder

<p><strong>"A pure delight from start to finish! Williams, White and Willig are in top form in this clever, engrossing whodunnit with a heart. </strong><strong>Lisa Unger, <em>New York Times</em>bestselling author of <em>The New Couple in 5B</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Three belovedNew York Times bestselling novelists, one marvelously entertaining locked-room whodunit! When a famous writer is found dead in the book-lined study of a remote Scottish castle, three very different American novelists become prime suspects!</em></strong></p><p><strong>Agatha Christie meets <em>Murder, She Wrote </em>in this witty locked room mystery and literary satire by<em>New York Times </em>bestselling team of novelists: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White.</strong></p><p>Theres been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland.Literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley has been found deadunder bizarre circumstancesin the castle towers book-lined study. Years ago, Presley purchased the castle as a showpiece for his brand and to lure paying guests with a taste for writerly glamour. Now it seems, the castle has done him inor, possibly, one of the castles guests has. Detective Chief Inspector Euan McIntosh, a local with no love for literary Americans, finds himself with the unenviable task of extracting statements from three American lady novelists.</p><p>The prime suspects are Kat de Noir, a slinky erotica writer; Cassie Pringle, a Southern mom of six juggling multiple cozy mystery series; and Emma Endicott, a New England blue blood and author of critically acclaimed historical fiction. The women claim to be best friends writing a book together, but the authors stories about how they know Brett Saffron Presley dont quite line up, and the detective is getting increasingly suspicious.</p><p>Why did the authors really come to Castle Kinloch? And what really happened the night of the great Kinloch ceilidh, when Brett Saffron Presley skipped the folk dancing for a rendezvous with death?</p><p>A crafty locked-room mystery, a pointed satire about the literary world, and a tale of unexpected friendship and romancethis novel has it all, as only three bestselling authors can tell it!</p>