KAREN DUKESS ON WELCOME TO MURDER WEEK, SPEAKING RUSSIAN & PEAK DISTRICT INSPIRATION

June 13, 2025

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Welcome to Undercurrents of Romance with host Tracey Devlyn!

In Episode 39, Tracey Devlyn sits down with author Karen Dukess to discuss her new romantic cozy mystery, Welcome to Murder Week.

A mother’s secret. A fake murder. A real-life reckoning.

In Welcome to Murder Week, Karen Dukess serves up wit, warmth, and intrigue in a romantic cozy mystery set in the English countryside—where grief meets reinvention, and love blooms between artisanal gin maker and an amateur sleuth. A clever, comforting, slow-burn gem.

💖 Romantic Cozy Mystery | Forced Proximity, Slow-burn, Found Family, Fish Out of Water

“Smart, funny, utterly original.” —Annabel Monaghan, USA Today bestselling author

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Karen Dukess is the author of The Last Book Party and 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 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.

Links mentioned in this episode: 

Grab Your Copy of Welcome to Murder Week 💖 Romantic Cozy Mystery
https://books2read.com/KDukessWTMW (universal link)

Author’s Website:
https://KarenDukess.com

Instagram:
@KarenDukess

Karen’s Recommended Read:
It’s a Love Story by Annabel Monaghan 
https://books2read.com/AMonaghanIAS 

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