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When a famous crime author, Vivienne Blake, dies suddenly at her glamorous 1920s-themed murder mystery dinner party, her death feels eerily like the final chapter of one of her own novels. To the small group of guests, it's a shocking tragedy. To the police, it's an accidental poisoning. But to Vivienne's estranged niece, Audrey Sinclair, something doesn't add up.
    Audrey, a sharp but underachieving millennial who has just inherited 
Vivienne's sprawling countryside manor, is reluctantly joined by her quirky group of uni friends-brilliant-but-reclusive history professor Theo, perpetually optimistic baker Bea, and amateur magician-slash-conspiracy theorist Ryan. Together, they dig into the mystery, uncovering cryptic notes hidden in Vivienne's library, encrypted messages within her unpublished manuscripts, and a string of clues pointing to long-standing grudges among her guests.
    As the group unravels Vivienne's secrets, they begin to suspect
her death wasn't just inspired by one of her books-it was meticulously planned by someone who knows them all too well. With the killer still at large, they'll need to solve the case before another "chapter" ends in murder.
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