In 1965 a fortune teller warns 17-year-old Frances that one day she’ll be murdered. And one year later a girl is missing, but it’s not Frances. It’s her best friend Emily. Frances spends a lifetime compiling dirt on every person she meets, withdrawing deeper into her obsessive investigations as she tries to prevent her own murder and solve the case of Emily’s disappearance.
In the present day, twenty-something Annie has just moved home to London when she is summoned to a mysterious meeting by her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances. But by the time Annie arrives in the quaint and charming village of Castle Knoll, Frances has been murdered, just like she always said she would be.
When Annie discovers Frances’s diary from 1965, she finds herself tangled in her great-aunt’s investigations, seeking justice for Frances, and maybe Emily, too. Can Annie unravel the mystery at the heart of Castle Knoll, or will digging up the past throw her into the path of the killer?
Story Locale:Castle Knoll, England
Series Overview: In the Castle Knoll Files, Annie investigates more cases “with” Frances. With each book, Frances’s writings and investigations will alternate with Annie’s present-day timeline, and in this way Frances's investigations will help Annie solve new and cold cases in Castle Knoll.
In 1965 a fortune teller warns 17-year-old Frances that one day she’ll be murdered. And one year later a girl is missing, but it’s not Frances. It’s her best friend Emily. Frances spends a lifetime compiling dirt on every person she meets, withdrawing deeper into her obsessive investigations as she tries to prevent her own murder and solve the case of Emily’s disappearance.
In the present day, twenty-something Annie has just moved home to London when she is summoned to a mysterious meeting by her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances. But by the time Annie arrives in the quaint and charming village of Castle Knoll, Frances has been murdered, just like she always said she would be.
When Annie discovers Frances’s diary from 1965, she finds herself tangled in her great-aunt’s investigations, seeking justice for Frances, and maybe Emily, too. Can Annie unravel the mystery at the heart of Castle Knoll, or will digging up the past throw her into the path of the killer?
Story Locale:Castle Knoll, England
Series Overview: In the Castle Knoll Files, Annie investigates more cases “with” Frances. With each book, Frances’s writings and investigations will alternate with Annie’s present-day timeline, and in this way Frances's investigations will help Annie solve new and cold cases in Castle Knoll.
Kristen Perrin
9780593474020
Paperback
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth / Cozy / Women Sleuths
