Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Crime
  3. Police procedurals

Read and listen for free for 14 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
3.5(2)

The Author's Guide to Murder : A Novel

""A pure delight from start to finish! Williams, White and Willig are in top form in this clever, engrossing whodunnit with a heart.” —Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of The New Couple in 5B

Three beloved New York Times bestselling novelists, one marvelously entertaining locked-room whodunit! When a famous writer is found dead in the book-lined study of a remote Scottish castle, three very different American novelists become prime suspects!

Agatha Christie meets Murder, She Wrote in this witty locked room mystery and literary satire by New York Times bestselling team of novelists: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White.

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 book-lined 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 ceilidh, 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!


Authors:

  • Beatriz Williams
  • Lauren Willig
  • Karen White

Narrators:

  • Angus King
  • Saskia Maarleveld
  • Brittany Pressley
  • Lisa Flanagan

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 11 h 45 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Crime
  • Police procedurals
  • Fiction
  • Comedic fiction
  • Comics and humor
  • Satire and parody

More by Beatriz Williams

Skip the list
  1. Det glemte værelse

    Karen White, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig

    audiobookbook
  2. Hver gang vi tog afsked

    Karen White, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig

    audiobookbook
  3. Glashavet

    Karen White, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig

    audiobookbook
  4. The Beach at Summerly : A Novel

    Beatriz Williams

    audiobook
  5. The Lost Summers of Newport : A Novel

    Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White

    audiobook
  6. The Wicked Widow : A Wicked City Novel

    Beatriz Williams

    audiobook
  7. Our Woman in Moscow

    Beatriz Williams

    audiobook
  8. Our Woman in Moscow : A Novel

    Beatriz Williams

    audiobook
  9. Her Last Flight

    Beatriz Williams

    audiobook
  10. All the Ways We Said Goodbye : A Novel of the Ritz Paris

    Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White

    audiobook
  11. The Wicked Redhead : A Wicked City Novel

    Beatriz Williams

    audiobook

Others have also read

Skip the list
  1. Brewing Crazy

    Kim Richardson

    audiobook
  2. Mystic Madness

    Kim Richardson

    audiobook
  3. Witching Whispers

    Kim Richardson

    audiobook
  4. With a Kiss We Die : A Novel

    L. R. Dorn

    audiobook
  5. Cosmic Jinx

    Kim Richardson

    audiobook
  6. Expiration Dates : A Novel

    Rebecca Serle

    audiobookbook
  7. The Butcher

    Jennifer Hillier

    audiobookbook
  8. Beating Heart

    Laura Pavlov

    audiobook
  9. If We Were Perfect

    Ana Huang

    audiobook
  10. Pucking Wild

    Emily Rath

    audiobook
  11. Unloved : The brand new sports romance follow-up to the TikTok sensation Unsteady

    Peyton Corinne

    audiobookbook
  12. Pucking Around

    Emily Rath

    audiobook

  • 21 books

    Beatriz Williams

    A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA from Columbia, Beatriz Williams spent several years in New York and London hiding her early attempts at fiction, first on company laptops as a communications strategy consultant, and then as an at-home producer of small persons, before her career as a writer took off. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore.

    Read more

  • 11 books

    Lauren Willig

    Lauren Willig is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling 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.

    Read more

  • 9 books

    Karen White

    Karen White is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of twenty-five novels, including Dreams of Falling and The Night the Lights Went Out. She has two grown children and currently lives near Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and two spoiled Havanese dogs.

    Read more

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms · Imprint ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5