What A Way To Go

Meet the Wisterns. Rich. Powerful. Morally bankrupt.

Anthony is dead. His wife and four children each have a motive.

And there’s a true crime-obsessed outsider ready to expose the killer…

With a family like this, who needs enemies?

Review

'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON

'Delicious' JOJO MOYES

'Very funny… I inhaled it' JOE LYCETT

‘Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to read’ MARIAN KEYES

'A blend of Miss Marple-style whodunnit and social comedy ― a gleeful satirising of the awfulness of the 1 per cent in TV shows such as The White Lotus and Succession’SUNDAY TIMES, Book of the Year

‘Undeniably funny’ GUARDIAN

‘Mackie has assembled a gloriously repugnant cast… A dark, funny story of a very dysfunctional family’ OBSERVER

‘Ridiculous fun – with awful characters… a surefire bestseller’ iNews

‘A blend of Miss Marple-style whodunnit and social comedy ― a gleeful satirising of the awfulness of the 1 per cent’ THE TIMES

'An English Succession on steroids. Terrible people doing terrible things – all conveyed with a heady sense of dark humour, mordant wit, and a few “did she *really* go there?” moments' SARAH VAUGHAN

'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

About the Author

Bella Mackie’s debut novel How to Kill Your Family was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller and spent 47 weeks in the top 10 in paperback. She is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling nonfiction Jog On, and has written for the Guardian, Vogue and Vice. In 2023 she judged the Women’s Prize for Fiction and her work has been shortlisted for the British Book Awards.