What to know about How to Cheat Your Own Death
How to Cheat Your Own Death by Kristen Perrin was first published in 2026, and it sits in the Castle Knoll Files series.
How to Cheat Your Own Death is Book 3 in the Castle Knoll Files series. New readers should begin with Book 1, How to Solve Your Own Murder (we have reviewed it). The book just before this one is How to Seal Your Own Fate, also reviewed on The Bookish Elf. We have reviewed 2 of the series so far.
Kristen Perrin is a familiar name here: 2 of Kristen Perrin’s books have full reviews, averaging 4.0 out of 5. Our favourite to date is How to Seal Your Own Fate (4★).
From the publisher
From the gritty streets of 1960s Soho to the lofty galleries of present-day West London, two interlocking mysteries decades apart unfold in this latest instalment in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Castle Knoll Murder Mystery series
Some secrets are deadlier than others
1968: Frances Adams is loving her new London life, and she’s stepped into a world of glamour thanks to her new friend, Vera Huntington–a magnetic socialite as mysterious as she is provocative. Vera dances around London like she owns it, taking Frances with her.
Present day: When Annie Adams heads to London to visit her famous artist mother, Laura, the last thing she expects to find is a dead body. Least of all for it to be Laura’s new protégée, left in an alley with her heart surgically removed from her chest.
Annie is no stranger to murder–after all, she’s solved a few already. And something about this case feels familiar. She’s read about one just like it in the journals of her late great aunt Frances, whose friend Vera was killed in the 1960s in the exact same way.
As Annie investigates, threats pile up on Laura’s doorstep, and it soon becomes clear that she’s next. With her mother’s life on the line, can Annie find the killer before it’s too late?
Description supplied by the publisher.
We haven’t read How to Cheat Your Own Death yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
