Catherine Mack: Every Time I Go on Vacation, Some One Dies
Vacation Mysteries #1
This book takes the form of a very traditional mystery, and turns it on it’s head, standing back a bit to look with fondness at the genre. There are other writers looking at mysteries in the same way – Elle Cosimano, Anthony Horowitz, Kat Ailes, Benjamin Stevenson and to and extent, Kemper Donovan – but like Cosimano, Ailes and Stevenson, Mack’s take is humorous. These are not stories written by dumb people. The stories are smart and the mysteries are clever and tricky, with fairly laid out turns of the plot. Mack invites the reader to join her somewhat hapless main character in detection, and honestly, as a reader, you might do a better job than Eleanor Dash.