Get ready for the murder mystery of the year. Georgia Writers Museum is thrilled to announce the return of highly popular best-selling author Karen White and best-selling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig as the January Meet the Author presenters on their just-released book, The Author’s Guide to Murder.
The event will be held at the museum on Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 3 p.m. (doors open at 2:30).
Attendees can also pre-order a copy of their runaway best-selling book. Here is a sneak peek at their book.
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 booklined 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.
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.
Why did the authors really come to Castle Kinloch? And what really happened the night of the great Kinloch gathering, when Brett Saffron Presley skipped the folk dancing for a rendezvous with death? 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.
Karen White is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of twenty-five novels, including The Shop on Royal Street and The House on Prytania. A graduate of the American School in London, she has a BS from Tulane University. She currently lives near Atlanta.
Beatriz Williams is the best-selling author of over a dozen novels, including The Beach at Summerly and The Summer Wives. A native of Seattle, she graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA from Columbia University. She lives in Connecticut.
Lauren Willig is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author. An alumna of Yale University, she has a graduate degree in history from Harvard and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She lives in New York City.
Tickets are $40 and can be purchased at Georgia Writers Museum (www.georgiawritersmuseum.org). The event includes Scottish High Tea.
Contact Georgia Writers Museum to register.