This Weekend Doesn't End Well for Anyone
A Novel
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The third in the witty and captivating series following bestselling author Eleanor Dash, who once again has to swap her sun hat for her detective hat, when a body is found at a murder mystery writing conference in the Bahamas.
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Eleanor Dash can never catch a break. Not only has she had to solve two real-life murder plots in the past year, but both times it was when she was meant to be on vacation. Now she’s finally got a ticket to a relaxing weekend—an all-inclusive resort at the Bahamas where she’s speaking at a conference for murder mystery writers—but she arrives to find a body on the floor of her hotel room. Because of course she does.
With plenty of familiar faces at the resort, any one of them could have been the intended target or the culprit behind it all. Was it Oliver Forrest, Eleanor’s dashing boyfriend who’s in danger of getting dropped by his publisher because his sales are dwindling? Or Connor Smith, Eleanor’s infuriating ex-lover-turned-bestselling-rom-com-author with a sordid past of his own? Or her sister Harper, whose own stilted writing career has been a sore point for years as Eleanor’s has soared? Perhaps it’s one of the other writers also in attendance, as friends, frenemies and foes from Eleanor’s past all seem to be invited to the island.
Surrounded by mystery writers who know all too well the many ways to craft the perfect crime, Eleanor is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery and do whatever it takes to get out of this weekend alive.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mack's sly third whodunit featuring bestselling author Eleanor Dash (after No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding) finds her heading to the Bahamas to speak at a murder mystery conference. Upon arriving at the rundown resort, Eleanor and her boyfriend, fellow author Oliver Forrest, are shown to their room, where they discover the dead body of a man whom nobody else at the resort seems to know. Eleanor has little time to consider the victim's identity before she's whisked away to address her first group of students, including her stalker, Cathy. Also present at the conference are Connor Smith, Eleanor's ex-lover who has become a successful rom-com author ("The protagonist of my novels and antagonist of my life," as she puts it), and a host of publishing acquaintances who might plausibly want the worst for Eleanor. Soon after she finally finds the time to investigate the first murder, more bodies start piling up. The series' signature humor, delivered via footnotes and Eleanor's sardonic first-person narration, is as fresh as ever, but Mack nearly overwhelms the proceedings with more suspects and red herrings than usual. Still, there's enough fun on offer here to smooth over the bumps.
