An Evening with Karen Dukess in Conversation with Jody DiPerna

Sat Sep 13 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm UTC-04:00

Riverstone Books | Pittsburgh

Riverstone Books
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An Evening with Karen Dukess in Conversation with Jody DiPerna
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Karen Dukess joins us to talk about her new title, Welcome to M**der Street
About this Event

Author Karen Dukess will join us at our Squirrel Hill store to talk on her new mystery, Welcome to M**der Week. She will be joined in conversation by Jody DiPerna and there will be a time for Q&A and book signing. We hope to see you there!

About the book:

In this delightfully funny and heartfelt new novel from the author of the “bittersweet page-turner” (The New York Times) The Last Book Party, an American woman travels to the English countryside when she discovers tickets her late mother had purchased for a M**der mystery simulation in a small British town.
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 she’s forced to go through her mother’s things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming “M**der week” in England’s Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake M**der mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mother’s secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herself—and begins a journey she never could have anticipated.
Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery lovers—Wyatt Green, forty, who works unhappily in his husband’s birding store, and Amity Clark, fifty, 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. Amidst a fling—or something more—with the handsome local maker of artisanal gin, Cath and her irresistibly charming fellow sleuths will find this week of fake M**der may help them face up to a very real crossroads in their own lives.
Witty, wise, and deliciously escapist, Welcome to M**der Week is a fresh, inventive twist on the M**der mystery and a touching portrayal of one daughter’s reckoning with her grief, her past—and her own budding sense of adventure.

About the author:

Karen Dukess is the author of The Last Book Party and Welcome to M**der Week. Karen has been a newspaper reporter in Florida, a magazine publisher in Russia, and a speechwriter on gender equality for the United Nations. She has a degree in Russian studies from Brown University and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. She lives outside of New York City and in Truro on Cape Cod, where she interviews some of today’s most acclaimed writers as host of the Castle Hill Author Talks for the Truro Center for the Arts.

About the conversation partner:

Jody DiPerna is an award-winning journalist and longtime book lover. She is one of the founders of the Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. PINJ exists to fill the gaps in the media landscape and tell the stories which often go untold. She has been covering books and literary life Pittsburgh, with a specific focus on writers and books in and about Pittsburgh, the Rust Belt and Northern Appalachia, for more years than she can recount.

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Riverstone Books, 5841 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, United States

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