How to Seal Your Own Fate, Kristen Perrin
How to Seal Your Own Fate, Kristen Perrin
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How to Seal Your Own Fate

Author: Kristen Perrin

Narrator: Alexandra Dowling, Jessica Hayles

Unabridged: 9 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/29/2025


Synopsis

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“A brilliant follow-up that proves Kristen Perrin is here to stay...A thrilling story that ends with a big reveal you won't see coming, even though the clues were in front of you the entire time!”—G.T. Karber, international bestselling author of Murdle

New York Times bestselling author Kristen Perrin is back and better than ever with her second Castle Knoll Murder Mystery.

Welcome to Castle Knoll, the idyllic English village home to a surprising number of murderers.

Present day: Annie Adams is just settling into life in Castle Knoll when local fortune teller Peony Lane shares a cryptic message only hours before being found dead inside the locked Gravesdown Estate. Annie has no choice but to delve into the dark secrets of her new countryside home in order to find out just what Peony Lane was trying to warn her about, before her brand new life comes crashing down around her.

1967: Teenage Frances Adams, Annie’s great aunt, finds herself caught between two men. Ford Gravesdown is one of the only remaining members of a family known for its wealth and dubious uses of power. Archie Foyle is a local who can’t hold down a job and lives above the village pub. But when Frances teams up with Archie to investigate the car crash that killed most of Ford's family, it quickly becomes clear that this was no accident—hints of cover-ups, lies, and betrayals abound. The question is, just how far does the blackness creep through the heart of Castle Knoll? When Frances uncovers secrets kept by both Ford and Archie, she starts to wonder: What exactly has she gotten herself into?

As Annie and Frances investigate two new mysteries spanning decades, they’ll unlock the next level of secrets held in Castle Knoll’s dark heart.

About The Author

Kristen Perrin is the New York Times bestselling author of the Castle Knoll Murder Mystery series. She is originally from Seattle, Washington, where she spent several years working as a bookseller before moving to the UK to do a master's and PhD. She lives with her family in Surrey, where she can be found poking around vintage bookstores, stomping in the mud with her two kids, and collecting too many plants. Her middle-grade series, Attie and the World Breakers, was published in German, Dutch, and Polish. How to Solve Your Own Murder was her adult debut.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on April 26, 2025

Kristen Perrin's How to Seal Your Own Fate is an absolute treat for mystery lovers, serving up a deliciously twisty tale set in the delightfully atmospheric Castle Knoll. Amateur sleuth Annie Adams is back, and this time she's caught up in a mind-bending mystery that starts with a fortune teller's c......more

Goodreads review by Dez the Bookworm on March 06, 2025

How I LOVED the first book in this series!!!! Another fun book by this author, totally worth the read. This is the second novel in the series and does not disappoint. Always a fun mystery, leaving me turning page after page to put all the pieces together. I thought I placed the story but I was not at......more

Goodreads review by Constantine on March 20, 2025

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ ½ Genre: Cozy Mystery How to Seal Your Fate is the second book in the Castle Knoll Files. Like the first book, it follows the same formula of dual timelines, one in the present that follows Annie Adams, and the other one in the past that follows Annie’s great-aunt, Frances Adams. In the pr......more

Goodreads review by NZLisaM on April 07, 2025

Annie Adam’s Great Aunt Frances may have solved her own murder, but during her fifty plus years of collecting information she has unearthed a lot of Castle Knoll’s secrets. Please note that this review contains spoilers for the first book in this series, How to Solve Your Own Murder, and also these b......more

Goodreads review by mimi (taylor’s version) on May 19, 2025

Ugh, can't say I love an unnecessary sequel whose purpose is to complicate an already confusing story and making less credible the previous book. While the first book in the Castle Knoll Files series, How to Solve Your Own Murder, was somehow justified as a debut mystery, this one is the copycat......more


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Praise for
How to Seal Your Own Fate

"Along with strong emotional connections between characters on the page and with readers, the mystery is complex, and the clues plentiful, while the charming location and tight-knit community will encourage a cozy reread. The end is satisfying on multiple levels, including the promise of more mysteries to come. A perfect choice for readers of Agatha Christie and Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce series."—Booklist (starred review)

“Kristen Perrin has done it again - a wonderful murder mystery set in Castle Knoll investigating the death of the fortune-teller Peony Lane. I really enjoyed the dual timeline sleuthing with the lovable Annie and Great Aunt Frances and I can't wait for book three.”—C.L. Miller, USA Today bestselling author of The Antique Hunters Guide to Murder

“A brilliant follow-up that proves Kristen Perrin is here to stay. It was wonderful to revisit the characters from How to Solve Your Own Murder, especially the infamous Peony Lane, who offers a new prediction that once again leads to surprisingly murderous results. How to Seal Your Own Fate is a thrilling story that ends with a big reveal you won't see coming, even though the clues were in front of you the entire time!”—G.T. Karber, international bestselling author of Murdle

“Kristen Perrin delivers a captivating blend of mystery and suspense in How to Seal your Own Fate, where the charming village of Castle Knoll harbors secrets that span generations. A thoroughly engaging read that kept me guessing until the very end.”—Joanna Wallace, national bestselling author of You’d Look Better as a Ghost

“It was such a delight to return to Castle Knole with Kristen Perrin’s charming but deadly characters in How To Seal Your Own Fate. This time, we get a glimpse of the swinging sixties as Great Aunt Frances proves as determined a sleuth as Annie. A fantastic follow-up to a cracking debut!”—Jessica Bull, author of Miss Austen Investigates

"What a great read! Full of shadowy corners and lost diaries. Prepare to joyously lose yourself in the dark secrets of Gravesdown Hall."J. M. Hall, author of A Spoonful of Murder

"Each character is so well-written and believable, all of them bringing something different to a really original, atmospheric story."—Ian Moore, author of Death and Croissants

“Perrin adroitly maneuvers the plot to keep the suspense at maximum levels, throws constant curveballs we aren't expecting, and reveals information about the characters we certainly never would have guessed."Bookreporter

“Perrin mixes gothic and cozy tropes with a steady hand, and Annie is a suitably plucky heroine…an entertaining ride.”—Publishers Weekly