Death knells and wedding bells

Eva Gates, 1951-

Book - 2023

After her beautiful Outer Banks Wedding, Lucy hears from her boss at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library that her friend never made it back from the reception, in the tenth novel of the series following Death by Beach Read.

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Genres
Cozy mysteries
Detective and mystery fiction
Novels
Published
New York : Crooked Lane 2023.
Language
English
Main Author
Eva Gates, 1951- (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
263 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781639102723
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Review by Kirkus Book Review

The wedding of a North Carolina librarian and a dentist who's been elected mayor would be perfect if not for the dead body. Nothing worse than some family squabbles mars the ceremony, held at a Nags Head hotel, until a corpse pops up in a utility closet the next morning. The dead man, Wayne Fortunada, had accompanied bride Lucy Richardson McNeil's Aunt Joyce to the wedding, and he'd seemed pleasant enough until the reception, where he drank heavily and was reduced to monosyllabic conversation. Lucy's already had an unfortunate amount of experience with murder, and her friendship with Det. Sam Watson has enabled her to give him information without risking snarky comebacks. This doesn't apply to the newly hired Det. North, who's helping Sam with the case; he's suspicious of Lucy's friendship with Sam and thinks he should be running the investigation himself. In addition to the murder, Lucy's concerned about the tension between her brother Kevin and his estranged wife, Kristen, who came to the wedding with a date of her own. Lucy's motivation to meddle is redoubled when absent-minded professor Eddie McClanahan, library director Bertie James' date, vanishes on the night of the wedding and becomes the chief suspect. When she and her groom, Connor, track Eddie down at a friend's beach cottage, he seems unaware of the murder but admits to having known the dead man years ago in New York and being blackmailed by him. Kristen's date was an actor who also had a past with Fortunada. Blackmailers are obvious targets for murder, but which of the suspects was willing to go that far? Quirky characters enliven a mystery with a twisty payoff. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.