Welcome to Litsy!

In this delightfully funny and heartfelt new novel from the author of the �bittersweet page-turner� (The New York Times) The Last Book Party, an American woman travels to the English countryside when she discovers tickets her late mother had purchased for a murder mystery simulation in a small British town. When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when she�s forced to go through her mother�s things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming �murder week� in England�s Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mother�s secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herself�and begins a journey she never could have anticipated. Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery lovers�Wyatt Green, forty, who works unhappily in his husband�s birding store, and Amity Clark, fifty, a divorced romance writer struggling with her novels�Cath sets about solving the �crime� and begins to unravel shocking truths about her mother along the way. Amidst a fling�or something more�with the handsome local maker of artisanal gin, Cath and her irresistibly charming fellow sleuths will find this week of fake murder may help them face up to a very real crossroads in their own lives. Witty, wise, and deliciously escapist, Welcome to Murder Week is a fresh, inventive twist on the murder mystery and a touching portrayal of one daughter�s reckoning with her grief, her past�and her own budding sense of adventure.