Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies
More of this genre please!
Every time I pick up a humorous mystery I remember how much I enjoy them. This had been on my radar to be read for a while, but it wasn’t until I won an audiobook copy of the second book in the series on The StoryGraph that I finally checked it out from the library.
The story follows Eleanor Dash, a mystery novelist, whose first novel was inspired by real-life events in her early-twenties on an Italian vacation where she met the slightly devious, definitely arrogant, Connor Smith and had a short-lived, whirlwind romance with him as they solved an actual crime involving the mob. 10-years later, having used Connor’s actual name in her first novel, she’s still paying him royalties and being blackmailed. She’s ready to kill him off. Ahem, kill his character off.
Eleanor’s publisher has planned a book anniversary tour through Italy. Along for the ride are several other writers, Connor, book club fans, and Eleanor’s stalker? There’s murder. There’s mystery. There’s intrigue. There’s hilarity. There are footnotes.
This was delectably fun. It's tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecatory, and has two sequels and a television series coming, at that. I enjoyed the Italian setting, unreliable characters, and the overall concept of a bunch of authors on a 10-year book anniversary tour with kooky fans and secrets of their own. I can see how the audiobook would be even more fun than the print and am looking forward to reading No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding in that format soon.
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Innuendo and a couple fade-to-black moments, but nothing explicit on the page.
