51 pages • 1 hour read
Kristen PerrinHow to Solve Your Own Murder
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Background
Authorial Context: Kristen Perrin
Kristen Perrin is an author of cozy crime and middle-grade adventure novels. How to Solve Your Own Murder is Perrin’s first novel for adults. Her previous middle-grade series, Attie and the Worldbreakers, was published specifically for German, Dutch, and Polish audiences. Originally from Seattle, Washington, she moved to the UK for graduate school and continues to live with her family in Surrey.
In an interview with TheBigThrill.org, Perrin said that reading Agatha Christie during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic felt both comforting and like coming home, as she had always been a fan of the writer and the mystery genre. How To Solve Your Own Murder is Perrin’s foray into the genre, which maintains many of the same tropes Christie includes but is updated for a modern audience and context.
Her second novel for adults, How To Seal Your Own Fate, is slated to be released in the spring of 2025.
Genre Context: The Cozy Mystery
The cozy mystery evolved directly from the Golden Age classic mysteries created by writers such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, who established the tropes of the
