Tara Goedjen’s Please Enjoy Your Stay is an atmospheric thriller that combines a secluded Austrian castle, a decade-old murder, toxic family secrets, a true crime podcast, and just enough actual ghostly activity to give its familiar mystery a gothic edge.
When Mia was a teenager, her cousin was murdered while the family was staying at a notorious castle in the Austrian Alps. Mia was the only witness, and her testimony helped put the killer behind bars, but the case also destroyed her family’s privacy. Her aunt, a controversial true crime author, was accused in the media of having some involvement in the murder, and the family has spent the decade since trying to live with the fallout. Now the convicted murderer is appealing his sentence, and a popular true crime podcast has taken up his case, determined to prove that he was wrongly convicted. When the podcast begins to dredge up the old accusations against Mia’s family, she returns to Austria to protect her aunt and set the record straight.
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