Castle Hill Author Talks
Join us for a series of provocative and entertaining discussions with some of today’s most talented and creative authors. In a series of live, one-hour events, acclaimed, debut, and award-winning authors of fiction and non-fiction will be interviewed about their new books and their paths to publication. The interviews will include time for questions from the audience
Tuesday, July 8, 6pm
Join host Christina Clancy as she CHATS with Karen Dukess at Edgewood Farm
Welcome to Murder Week
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 “murder week” in England’s Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake murder 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…
“Welcome to Murder Week” by Karen Dukess and “The Snowbirds” by Christina Clancy will be available for sale. This event will be a fundraiser for Castle Hill as well as a celebration of Karen’s book release. The author will make a donation to Castle Hill for each book sold at this event.
Karen Dukess, who has hosted the Castle Hill Author Talks since 2021, is the author of the IndieNext and Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick THE LAST BOOK PARTY and the upcoming (June 2025) WELCOME TO MURDER WEEK. She 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 with her family near New York City and spends as much time as possible in Truro on Cape Cod.
About the host:
Christina Clancy is the author of The Snowbirds (out Feb. 4, 2025), Shoulder Season, and The Second Home, selected by Independent Booksellers as an "IndieNext" pick. Her writing has been featured on Good Morning America, CNN, and Travel & Leisure. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Sun Magazine, on Wisconsin Public Radio and in various literary journals and magazines. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and she taught at Beloit College for a decade before writing full-time. She divides her time between Madison, Wisconsin and Palm Springs, and hopes to someday convince her very tall husband to move to the outer Cape, where she's spent almost all of her summers.