L.A.'s Reviews > How to Solve Your Own Murder

"For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club , an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate... Now it's up to her great-niece to catch the killer."
What a fun mystery in the Gravestone Estate!! The story alternates between present and past. In 1965, Francis Adams as a teenager sought out a fortune teller at a county fair. What she finds out will haunt her for 60 years. The bone chilling prediction: "One day Frances will be murdered." She spent a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn't happened. She compiled dirt on every person who crossed her path.
Annie, her great niece, travels to the estate for a meeting. When she looks through the notes she has compiled, as well as a diary and photos, she finds out every village person has a motive for her great aunt's murder. The reading of the will becomes a game play with riddles and challenges, which I thought was a clever take. There were a lot of suspects since she spent a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hadn't happened yet. I thought this was a fun and entertaining book that the people she knew and lived around were all capable of being the culprit.
Thank you NetGalley and PENGUIN GROUP Dutton for this delightful ARC in exchange for my honest review.