Reading Adventures of a Curious Kat

  Frances Adams has been murdered, just as a fortune she was given as a teen foretold. She’d spent her entire life, in fact, trying to solve her own murder-to-be. Right before it happened she summoned her great-niece Annie, who she’d never met, among others for a mysterious meeting at her English estate. Instead of finally meeting her great aunt, Annie finds herself being tasked by Frances’ will to solve her murder - only there are a lot of potential suspects in Castle Knoll, and one of them doesn’t want that mystery solved! How’s that for a premise?! I thought it was pretty darn clever, and the blurb comparing it to Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club , both of which I loved? YES, please! Let the party begin!  Well, I’m bummed to say … that party balloon went flat fast . I get WHY publishers throw out popular, enticing titles to market their new books. Frankly, it works. It caught MY attention, for one! The problem is, if you’re going to hook potential readers by mentioning title