Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Please Enjoy Your Stay in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: October 13, 2026
Summary:
After a true crime podcast reopens her cousin’s murder case, a woman must confront her past at a glamorous European castle-turned-hotel where she follows a trail of toxic family secrets and deadly lies.
When they were teenagers, Mia’s beloved cousin was murdered during their stay at an infamous castle in the Austrian Alps. As the only witness, Mia’s testimony put the killer behind bars, but it tore her life apart: the media accused her aunt, a controversial true crime author, of being involved. Now, a decade later, the murderer is appealing his conviction, and a popular true crime podcast starts covering the case, determined to exonerate him, and resurfacing lies about Mia’s family in the process.
Desperate to protect her aunt—and what she knows to be the truth—Mia returns to Austria. The castle is being revamped as a luxury hotel, and Mia gets a job as a nanny for the new owner, hiding in plain sight as she investigates, needing to set the story straight once and for all. But after someone mysteriously disappears on the property and sinister new evidence emerges regarding her cousin’s death, she realizes she might have accused the wrong man…and put her own life in danger.
My thoughts:
I absolutely loved this book … so much so that I totally binged it in one sitting over the weekend. I am always up for a good atmospheric thriller and this one absolutely delivers that in such a smart, twisted way.
Here’s what I loved:
🖤 Unreliable memories — this is one of my favorite tropes and I loved how it played out here
🗝 A slow-burn that builds — this one takes its time setting the scene and it pays off
🖤 The mixed timeline, with some chapters from the past — I loved getting a different perspective, especially as our FMC at that time would have been too young to fully understand what was really going on
🗝 The podcast — I loved how it works as a plot point and Mia’s motivation…so clever!!
Audio thoughts:
As soon as I saw that Carlotta Brennan and Imogen Church were narrating this, I knew I had to listen to it and boy did they nail this performance! They infused just the right amount of tension and emotion into their voice as needed.
Bottom line: This is a perfect book to add to your #spookyseason tbr. It’s haunting, twisty and completely addictive.
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