What A Way To Go by Bella Mackie

Published on 12th September 2024.
‘I was immensely grateful that despite the gruesome way my husband died, he’d done it with his clothes on.’ Anthony Wistern is wealthy beyond imagination. Fragrant wife, gaggle of photogenic children, French chateau, Cotswold manor, plethora of mistresses, penchant for cutting moral corners, tick tick tick tick tick tick. Unfortunately for him, he’s also dead.
Suddenly poised to inherit his fortune, each member of the family falls under suspicion. And that’s when everything comes crashing down… 'Still not over Succession? A dysfunctional family with four inheritance-obsessed children gives the Roy clan a run for its money, with a murderous twist' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE 'The right side of spiky and the right kind of fun, with huge personality' ADELE PARKS ‘It takes a lot of skill to write a novel in which none of the characters are particularly likeable, and yet you still find yourself propelled forwards, desperate to see what happens. In Bella Mackie’s second novel – What A Way To Go – a wealthy patriarch dies at an obscenely opulent party, and we witness the fallout through the eyes of various family members and protagonists.
God, they’re all deliciously awful. I loved her first, How to Kill Your Family, and her she seems to have found a rich and poisonous vein. Think a very English Succession, with just as much intrigue, backstabbing, and narcissism’ JOJO MOYES