Welcome to Murder WeekWelcome to Murder Week

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 American cottage mates, both ardent mystery lovers-- Wyatt Green, who works unhappily in his husband's birding store, and Amity Clark, 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. Amid a fling-- or something more-- with a handsome local maker or artisinal gin, Cath and her irresistably charming fellow sleuths discover that their week of fake murder helps them face up to 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. --