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.
The first edition hardcover of This Weekend Doesn't End Well for Anyone features beautiful designed endpapers!
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.
Witty, Self-Aware, and Not Quite for Me
"Catherine Mack’s This Weekend Doesn’t End Well For Anyone has a playful, distinctive style that makes it memorable. Even though I didn’t realize it was the third book in the series, I found it easy to follow and had no trouble settling into the story. Eleanor Dash is a witty narrator, and I enjoyed the book’s self-aware tone and clever premise. That said, the footnotes sometimes took me out of the mystery, and some of the pop culture references, especially the repeated Taylor Swift mentions and the use of “obvi,” felt a little overdone for my taste. Even so, I could appreciate the book’s humor and strong voice, and while it wasn’t a perfect fit for me, I can see why others would really enjoy it."
