Book Review - This Weekend Doesn't End Well for Anyone by Catherine Mack - #HolidayReading Tunisia

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Title: This Weekend Doesn't End Well for Anyone

Author: Catherine Mack

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Macmillan

Publication Date: 14th May 2026

Rating: 4 Stars

A luxury hotel in the Bahamas. A world-renowned writers’ conference. A killer on the loose . . .

Eleanor Dash can never catch a break, but she finally has the ticket to a relaxing weekend: an all-inclusive resort where she’s speaking at a conference for murder mystery writers. Then she checks in and finds a body on the floor of her hotel room.

Any one of the familiar faces at the resort could have been the intended target – or the culprit behind it all. Or perhaps it’s one of the other writers in attendance, who know all too well the many ways to craft a perfect crime.

Eleanor is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery and must do whatever it takes to get out of this weekend alive . .

Despite this being the third book in the series, this is only the second one I have read, I read the first, somehow totally missed the second being published and have now really enjoyed this latest book. 

There is such a chatty, breaking the fourth wall sort of a writing style, that it's very hard not to be totally charmed by Eleanor Dash. 

She tells us how to write a crime novel, while using real life examples of her current situation at a writing conference to prove her points. 

It's just that this is a crime writers conference, large numbers of the attendees could want her dead, and it does seem that once again no matter where she travels, dead bodies appear to follow.

With in this the first one appearing as she reaches her hotel room for the first time on arrival from the Bahamas. 

There is a wacky cast of fairly familiar characters, and although I probably was missing out from not having read the middle book, I could still follow everything pretty clearly. 

i totally didn't guess the final outcomes at all, 

I loved being back in this characters world, and thoroughly enjoyed the zaniest plot I've read for a while.  It was amusing and highly enjoyable, and I'm very curious as to what Catherine Mack may write next. 

Thank you to Macmillan and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.