A review by travelandreading
How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin

4.5

This was a delightful mystery, perfect for the  mood I was in. It centers around Annie, who has been summoned to a meeting at the country estate of her great-aunt Frances, who she has never met. However, when she arrives, Frances is found dead and Annie discovers that if she solves her murder, she will inherit Frances’s estate. 

I enjoyed the two points of view - Annie in the present timeline and Frances’s journal entries from when she was 17 in the early 1960s. I thought it was a clever way for the author to have Frances be present in the book, even while dead. The events from Frances’s diary play a role in her death 60 years later and I delighted in trying to figure out who the murderer was along with Annie. There were a lot of characters but I found it easier to keep everyone straight as the book progressed. I didn’t predict who the murderer was but it made sense. I’m looking forward to picking up the next book in the series.