Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
A Novel
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3.8 • 42 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A USA Today Bestseller
#1 Toronto Star Bestseller in Canadian Fiction
A Globe and Mail Bestseller in Canadian Fiction
A Vancouver Sun Bestseller in New Releases
An Indie Next List Pick (May 2024)
An Amazon Editors’ Pick for Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense (May 2024)
Library Journal’s Mystery Pick of the Month (April 2024)
Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for.
"Quick, captivating, and oh-so-much-fun! This delicious mystery is as spellbinding as Knives Out."—Elle Cosimano, New York Times bestselling author of the Finlay Donovan series
All that bestselling author Eleanor Dash wants is to get through her book tour in Italy and kill off her main character, Connor Smith, in the next in her Vacation Mysteries series—is that too much to ask?
Clearly it is, because when an attempt is made to kill the real Connor—the handsome but infuriating con man she got mixed up with ten years ago and now can’t get out of her life—Eleanor’s enlisted to help solve the case.
Contending with literary competitors, rabid fans, a stalker—and even her ex, Oliver, who turns up unexpectedly—theories are bandied about, and rivalries, rifts, and broken hearts are revealed. But who’s really trying to get away with murder?
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies is an irresistible and hilarious series debut from Catherine Mack, introducing bestselling fictional author Eleanor Dash on her Italian book tour where life starts to imitate the world in her books when she’s caught up in a real-life murder mystery.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The pseudonymous Mack's amusing debut and series launch centers on 35-year-old Eleanor Dash, author of a successful cozy mystery series about a woman who solves crimes in exotic vacation spots with the help of handsome con man Connor Smith. The problem for Eleanor is that, for the past 10 years, the real-life Connor Smith has been threatening to sue her for defamation unless she pays him a healthy chunk of her royalties. Fed up with compensating Connor for her own successes, Eleanor has plans to kill off the fictional character in her next book and finally bring the series to an end. She decides to plot the series' swan song while on a book tour in Italy with Connor, a handful of other authors, and a group of fans who've been tapped to post about the tour on Instagram. Partway through Eleanor's Italian jaunt, however, a desperate Connor informs her that someone is trying to kill him. But is he telling the truth? And if so, should Eleanor be watching her own back? Mack stacks the whodunit plot with perhaps one too many dead-end twists, but Eleanor's first-person narration is a delight, chock-full of amusing asides (often in footnotes) that wryly examine the craft of mystery writing and business of publishing. A sequel would be welcome.
Customer Reviews
Fun Cozy mystery
Eleanor Dash is a best selling author of crime fiction. Her first book was based on her trip to Italy when she was 25. There she met the handsome Connor Smith, had a whirlwind romance and then they helped solve a string of bank robberies. She wrote the fictionalized version of what happened and it became an international best seller. She is now working on her tenth book in this series, and things are not quite so rosy. Turns out Connor is a bit of a cad, he was married when he romanced her, and forced her to share part of the royalties to use his name. At the ten year anniversary of the original crime, her publisher has sent Eleanor, Connor and a bunch of other authors on a book tour through Italy. Connor tries to get Eleanor to help him, as he is convinced that someone is trying to kill him. Eleanor seems to think he is crazy, but then someone tries to kill her as well. Everyone on the tour has a reason to kill Connor;, Eleanor;Eleanor’s ex Oliver; Harper, Eleanor’s sister: Connor’s ex wife, Allisonn and a few other folks on the tour, including a crazed fan. But the question is, who would also want to kill Eleanor? This is a fun, humorous mystery. What kept this from being a five star read? The sinking footnotes. I think the author thought this would be quirky, but it was annoying. Overall, a fun read. I received an arc of this book from NetGalley for my honest review.