News & Events
Upcoming Events
—MONTREAL MYSTERY FESTIVAL, Montreal, Quebec — May 23-24, 2025
- Friday, May 23 — 2:15 – 3:15pm Death and Other Troubles (English)
Kate Hilton, Catherine Mack, and Elizabeth Renzetti. Host: Bianca Marais.
—THRILLERFEST, New York, New York — June 18-22, 2025
- Friday, June 20 — 8:00 – 9:00 AM Bait, Switch or Distraction? Using Red Herrings
—MOTIVE FESTIVAL, Toronto, Ontario — June 27-29, 2025
- Friday, 27 June — 5:30 PM – Location, Location: Eliza Reid & Catherine Mack
- Sunday, 29 June — 11 AM – Tea Cake and Murder: Till Death Do Us Part with Catherine Mack & Sue Hincenberg
- Sunday, 29 June — 2:30 PM – Murder, She Chuckled: Writing Comedy in Crime with Jonathan Whitelaw, Catherine Mack, Sue Hincenbergs
—INDIGO, KITCHENER, Kitchener, Ontario — June 30, 2025
- In conversation, 6 PM
News
—NO ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO DIE AT THIS WEDDING received a glowing review from Publisher’s Weekly!
“Mack complements the twisty plot with Eleanor’s brisk and biting first-person narration, chock-full of amusing asides (often in footnotes) that examine the movie business and the craft of mystery writing. This one goes down smooth.”
—NO ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO DIE AT THIS WEDDING received a great review from Booklist!
“When members of the wedding staff and of the film cast start coming up dead, Eleanor is tasked with trying to solve the mystery while worrying this is all because of her, again! Eleanor continues to be a sarcastic narrator who uses footnotes to speak to the reader. The novel is again full of pop references, romance, and a mix of suspects. It is an easy read that will keep you interested enough to find out who did it.”
—EVERY TIME I GO ON VACATION, SOMEONE DIES received a glowing review in the Globe & Mail!
—EVERY TIME I GO ON VACATION, SOMEONE DIES was reviewed in the New York Times! And they liked it!
“Eleanor Dash, the Aperol spritz-loving narrator of Catherine Mack’s fizzy series debut is a chatty, self-aware sort, a novelist with a best-selling series called “Vacation Mysteries.””
—EVERY TIME I GO ON VACATION, SOMEONE DIES received a glowing review from Publisher’s Weekly!
“Mack stacks the whodunit plot with perhaps one too many dead-end twists, but Eleanor’s first-person narration is a delight, chock-full of amusing asides (often in footnotes) that wryly examine the craft of mystery writing and business of publishing. A sequel would be welcome.”
—EVERY TIME I GO ON VACATION, SOMEONE DIES received a starred review from Library Journal and it was named their Mystery Pick of the Month!
—EVERY TIME I GO ON VACATION, SOMEONE DIES was named one of Goodread’s Most Anticipated Mystery & Thrillers of 2024!
—EVERY TIME I GO ON VACATION, SOMEONE DIES received a glowing review in Booklist.
“This novel is funny and suspenseful, featuring Eleanor as a witty and relatable narrator who constantly breaks the fourth wall in an entertaining and original use of footnotes. Mack’s tale is full of lively references (Taylor Swift galore), beautiful Italian settings, romance, fun chapter titles, and an interesting mix of suspects who are almost all mystery writers themselves. It is an amusing, light read that invites the reader to gather the clues and solve the crime before Eleanor reveals the answer.”
—HAVE YOU SEEN HER was named one of the Best Canadian Crime Fiction Novels of 2023!
—HAVE YOU SEEN HER is a Toronto Star and Globe & Mail Bestseller!
—The Globe & Mail says that HAVE YOU SEEN HER “will keep you on the edge of your seat.”
—The Toronto Star calls PLEASE JOIN US “exceptionally crisp and clever”!
—Read Catherine’s powerful personal essay about why she left the practice of law in the TORONTO STAR.
—SIX WEEKS TO LIVE is a Toronto Star and Globe & Mail Bestseller for six weeks reaching #3 in the charts!
