No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding
A Novel
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- Expected May 13, 2025
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
The second in a witty, USA Today bestselling series following author Eleanor Dash as she goes from wedding guest to murder mystery investigator at her best friend’s wedding on Catalina Island.
Attending your best friend’s wedding should be a piece of (wedding) cake, but not for Eleanor Dash, bestselling author of the Vacation Mysteries series. Because murder seems to follow her every time she goes on vacation and is definitely her uninvited plus-one to the special occasion.
Emma Wood, Eleanor’s best friend since childhood, is starring in the movie adaptation of When in Rome, Eleanor’s first novel. Emma is also marrying Fred Winters, a major movie star and Emma’s co-star, who just happens to be playing Connor Smith, Eleanor’s ex and leading man of the series.
Filming wraps and they invite the whole cast and crew to their wedding at nearby Catalina Island. There may be a storm headed their way—because of course there is—but nothing will stop their nuptials . . . that is until Emma receives a note that says “Someone is going to die at the wedding.”
Eleanor is a professional at this point, and she’ll do everything she can to uncover the murderer so true love can prevail . . . before it’s too late for her and the rest of the storm-trapped wedding party.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mack's fast and funny sequel to Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies finds bestselling mystery author Eleanor Dash in California, where the film adaptation of her first novel, When in Rome, is being shot. The stars are Eleanor's childhood best friend, Emma Wood, and Emma's fiancé, Hollywood heartthrob Fred Winter. After filming wraps, the cast heads to Catalina Island to celebrate Fred and Emma's wedding. While severe weather threatens to thrash the coast of California, Eleanor privately frets about an anonymous note she received promising that someone will die during the nuptials. All goes well at the ceremony, but during the reception, Eleanor discovers a dead body with a cake knife sticking out of its back while searching for a bathroom. Equal parts horrified and exasperated, she launches an inquiry into the killing and digs up some uncomfortable truths about the people closest to her. Mack complements the twisty plot with Eleanor's brisk and biting first-person narration, chock-full of amusing asides (often in footnotes) that examine the movie business and the craft of mystery writing. This one goes down smooth.
