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 beloved New 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>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' stories about how they know Brett Saffron Presley don't 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 romance--this novel has it all as only three bestselling authors can tell it! </p>