A teenager in 1965 gets her fortune read, predicting her own murder. Now, sixty years later it’s come true - and it’s up to her grandniece to solve it before the time limit established in the will runs out. 

An interesting plot for a murder mystery to be sure. Once the plot actually kicked off I found the characters to be fun and just enjoyed the ride. We meet Frances through her journal entries, convinced of her own impending murder. She has spent decades of her life attempting to solve the riddle given to her by the fortune teller, and generally causing a nuisance to all around her by seeing death around every corner. When her grandniece unexpectedly gets a call that she’s to be the inheritor to Frances’ will - a woman she’s never met - she’s confused. She’s even more confused when they arrive to find Frances dead, and the will stating that she’s to solve the murder within a week or that all her assets will be sold off. With the timeline ticking down and only her great aunt’s journal from when she was 17 to go off of, she has to try to solve a decades old murder in the making. 

Told between two timelines - Frances’ journal and current-day Annie attempting to solve the case - this book presents an interesting premise. I did have fun reading this, and I believe any fan of cozy mysteries will have fun with this book. There were a few aspects I found difficult to get into that I tended to gloss over during my reading - the almost no investigation of Frances’ death, the handling of evidence, and in all honesty - how the mystery was solved at the end. However, I had a fun ride on this adventure and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a relatively low-stakes murder mystery in the drowsy English countryside. 
 

(Also, not related because these are young men/teenagers in the 1960s, but why was literally every single male love interest to Frances the worst? I hated them both? They both slept with the same woman, and then blamed that woman for being the reason they did - plus with a small uncomfortable level of slut-shaming/purity culture leveled at both her and Frances, where Frances is seen as the “morally” better choice because she was a virgin. I understand that this was most likely included to fit the era of the journal entries, but I didn’t like the almost implication that the girl who slept with both of these men were the sole aggressor - as if Frances’ boyfriend couldn’t have simply. Not had sex with her and didn’t cheat.)