The Author's Guide to Murder -- Beatriz Williams

<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>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>There's 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 dead--under bizarre circumstances--in the castle tower's 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 in...or, possibly, one of the castle's 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