Welcome to Murder Week: A Novel
Littérature générale (romans), Policiers (romans)
Audio avec voix de synthèse, Braille automatisé
Résumé
USA TODAY BESTSELLER In this delightfully funny and heartfelt new novel from the author of the &“bittersweet page-turner&” (The New York Times) The Last Book Party, an American woman travels to the English countryside when she discovers tickets her late… mother had purchased for a murder mystery simulation in a small British town.When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when she&’s forced to go through her mother&’s things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming &“murder week&” in England&’s Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mother&’s secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herself—and begins a journey she never could have anticipated. Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery lovers—Wyatt Green, forty, who works unhappily in his husband&’s birding store, and Amity Clark, fifty, a divorced romance writer struggling with her novels—Cath sets about solving the &“crime&” and begins to unravel shocking truths about her mother along the way. Amidst a fling—or something more—with the handsome local maker of artisanal gin, Cath and her irresistibly charming fellow sleuths will find this week of fake murder may help them face up to a very real crossroads in their own lives. Witty, wise, and deliciously escapist, Welcome to Murder Week is a fresh, inventive twist on the murder mystery and a touching portrayal of one daughter&’s reckoning with her grief, her past—and her own budding sense of adventure.