Karen Dukess is the USAToday bestselling author of Welcome to Murder Week and The Last Book Party and is a contributor to the anthology (November 2025) Ladies in Waiting: Jane Austen’s Unsung Characters. She is also the host of The Castle Hill Author Talks with Karen Dukess, a podcast of Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill on Cape Cod for which she interviews today’s most exciting authors. Karen has been a tour guide in the former Soviet Union, 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.
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