A Tour to Die For

By Michelle Chouinard
** Publication Date 23 September 2025 **
​4 stars


A Serial Killer’s Guide to San Francisco was such a fun novel. I mean, there was murder and mayhem, but presented in Capri’s snarky demeanor, it was a bit dark with a bit of humor. This book is no different.


Capri is still giving her murder tours of the San Francisco area, but now she’s expanded into a podcast about the Overkill Bill serial killings that she resolved in the last novel. Of course, she has a vested interest in Overkill Bill. He was her grandfather. People who take her tours are sometimes still obsessed with the Overkill Bill story. 


On her Barbary Coast tour is a woman named Lorraine. Lorraine keeps asking about the Overkill Bill story, and Capri is trying to keep the tour on track. When Lorraine suddenly shrieks that their is someone being strangled in a nearby building, Capri jumps to calling the police. And now Capri has involved herself in yet another murder mystery.


These are such fun books. I liken them to Elle Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan novels. A great protagonist, lots of mayhem, a little bit of romance. Chouinard has that uncanny ability to present murder in a way that while a little bit gruesome, isn’t graphic. Capri finds herself in unbelievable situations, somehow, you know she will find a way out of. 


So well written, with loose ends tied together. While it can be read as a standalone, knowing the history of Capri, her business partners, her ex-husband, and family members can make the going a bit easier. Capri is written as the perfect fallible detective. Her banter with Petito, her love interest, is so much fun to read. Her business partner Heather, is an awesome counter-character. Best friends, but they are definitely different people, and Heather tells it like it is. 


I will continue to read these books for as long as Chouinard keeps putting them out!