Let’s Not Go Overboard Here by Erica Hendry is a fun mystery book about Mel, who loves pop culture and is convinced a rich woman is missing.
Let’s Not Go Overboard Here by Erica Hendry is a quick and fun read that is perfect for summer reading by a pool or on the beach. This book features Mel, who is full of pop culture tidbits and grieving the loss of her best friend. When another friend invites her on a yacht for the weekend, she jumps at the chance. In the end, Mel is convinced that a rich woman is missing and maybe dead. But no one believes her. Can she save Freya even though she couldn’t save her best friend?
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Let’s Not Go Overboard Here Overview
Title: Let’s Not Go Overboard Here
Author: Erica Hendry
Pages: 320 Pages
Publish Date: June 2nd, 2026
Genre: Murder Mystery
My Star Rating: 4/5 stars! (I loved this book and would recommend it to most people!)
Grab Your Copy Here: https://amzn.to/4umxpXH
Synopsis From Amazon
There are a lot of things that pop culture aficionado Melanie Hoffman is great at: rattling off storylines from The Real Housewives, reciting the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen filmography from memory, and quoting Gossip Girl like it’s The Godfather, to name a few. And then there are the things she’s not good at: maintaining a healthy work-life balance, sleeping (in general), and being a functioning adult who isn’t completely destroyed by the death of her best friend, Ari. Mel has accepted that nothing will ever fill the crater-sized hole that Ari’s absence has left behind, and the cork on her grief is stopped tight. But then her company requires Mel to take a mandatory vacation. Cue the explosion.
Desperate to avoid two weeks alone with her thoughts, Mel joins her friend Vish on a yacht trip in Greece chartered by his tech company. It’s the Below Deck fantasy of Mel’s dreams, with built-in quasi-celebrities to fixate on in the form of the posh co-founders of Vish’s company. Mel has done enough social media stalking to immediately typecast the fabulous yet fragile Freya, her arrogant boyfriend Seb, and the hardworking and humble Ollie. A luxurious yacht chockful of hot, rich Brits? Mel couldn’t dream up a better distraction from her sorrow.
But Mel’s dream quickly plunges into nightmarish waters when a sinister conversation overheard in the dead of night convinces Mel that Freya is in danger. And when Freya turns up missing the next morning, Mel immediately clocks what happened with the skill of a rabid true crime fan: Freya was murdered, and Seb is the prime suspect.
But Freya’s disappearance doesn’t rock the boat in the way Mel is expecting. In fact, no one else onboard seems to think anything’s fishy. Mel’s concern for Freya grows into obsession, and she becomes dead set on saving Freya’s life like she couldn’t save Ari’s.
My Review of Let’s Not Go Overboard Here
First off, thank you to Erica Hendry, NetGalley, and Grand Central Publishing for an advanced reading copy of Let’s Not Go Overboard Here. It’s such a funny and twisty, maybe murder mystery book.
Are you looking for a summer murder mystery book that will have you laughing at the shenanigans of the main character? Then look no further, Let’s Not Go Overboard. Here is a great book to read by the pool or on the beach. You’ll root for Mel but also question if she’s making everything up.
Mel is the kind of main character who feels so relatable and understandable. She lost her best friend, and she’s struggling with the guilt of moving forward. So, she’s stuck. Enter her friend Vish, who invites her on a yacht for a few days. Vish is the kind of friend everyone deserves. He’s willing to feed into Mel’s drama at first, but still calls her out when she needs to look in the mirror.
If you are a fan of Below Deck and Real Housewives, this book is for you. There are so many references to those shows and to pop culture in general. But even if you don’t watch those shows (I don’t), you will still enjoy this book. It’s perfect for people who love true crime, rich people behaving badly, unreliable main characters, and summer vibes.
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Final Thoughts
I hope you enjoy reading Let’s Not Go Overboard Here as much as I did. It’s a funny murder mystery with some very emotional moments. I loved Mel, she’s the kind of girl I would love to be friends with. If you have any questions about this book or want to share your thoughts after reading, let me know in the comments below. I love hearing from all of you.
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Thanks for reading,
Kel
