Eleanor Dash is back, this time on Catalina Island for her best friend Emma’s wedding. Emma is starring in the film adaptation of Eleanor’s bestselling book, When In Rome, and she’s marrying the co-star playing the character of Connor. Real life Connor (Eleanor’s ex and nemesis), no longer extorting Eleanor, is also back. As are all our favorite characters from Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies. We have Harper (Eleanor’s sister), Oliver (Eleanor’s boyfriend), Connor’s ex-wife, and several new characters as well.

I think I liked this even more than the first one. If you haven’t read The Blonde Identity yet (review here), I’d recommend that one first. It had been on my TBR (to be read) list for a while, but the publisher offering me a digital review copy of this one is what final got me to pick it up. I’m so glad I did.

Pure fun, plain and simple.

A woman wakes up in Paris with armed thugs after her. She seems to be on the run? But she doesn’t really know because she can’t seem to recall anything about herself, not even her first name. When she sees a video clip of a “wanted” woman on TV she realizes she must be a spy.

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.

When James’s twin brother Johnny dies, she can feel it. It’s not just twintuition; she sees his final view of dappled light through the trees. She feels the bullet wound to the chest. Not too long after she drives from San Francisco, where she’s made her life for the past two decades, back to her hometown of Six Rivers in the mountains of northern California.