KAREN DUKESS

USA TODAY BESTSELLERIn 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 shes forced to go through her mothers things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming murder week in Englands 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 mothers secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herselfand begins a journey she never could have anticipated. Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery loversWyatt Green, forty, who works unhappily in his husbands birding store, and Amity Clark, fifty, a divorced romance writer struggling with her novelsCath sets about solving the crime and begins to unravel shocking truths about her mother along the way. Amidst a flingor something morewith 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 daughters reckoning with her grief, her pastand her own budding sense of adventure.

La novela perfecta para los amantes de los libros sobre libros.Ambientada entre Nueva York y Cape Cod en el verano de 1987, El último libro ofrece una visión real y encantadora del mundo editorial de esos años.Eve Rosen, una aspirante a escritora de 25 años ansia la aprobacion de los escritores famosos que la rodean, en su mayoria hombres, como confirmacion de su talento. Pero pronto descubre que detras de la glamurosa fachada del exito literario hay una gran dosis de decepciones y, sobre todo, que la buena escritura no sucede por arte de magia, que se necesita mucho mas que inspiracion y talento para escribir un libro.Con un estilo limpido y elegante, unos personajes muy bien perfilados y la dosis exacta de nostalgia ochentera, romance y obsesion por entrar en el selecto mundo literario de Nueva York, El ultimo libro es un excelente retrato de ese vertiginoso momento en la vida en el que todo esta por definir.