How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

by Kristen Perrin

“The fortune-teller said, ‘The bird will betray you.’ ”

Your future contains dry bones. Your slow demise begins right when you hold the queen in the palm of one hand. Beware the bird, for it will betray you. And from that, there’s no coming back. But daughters are the key to justice, find the right one and keep her close. All signs point toward your murder.

I, on the other hand, work hard not to think of Sylvia Plath every time I look at it.

And that’s the thing with lies: They’re much easier to believe when it’s an idea you like.

And me, now adrift between them, trying to work out whose story I’m telling and whose story I’m living.