- ISBN13: 9780451229618
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Product Description
School psychologist Skye Denison reluctantly agrees to act as maid of honor in her California cousin’s over-the-top platinum-style wedding- and is also expected to assist the control-freak wedding planner. But when Skye discovers the planner dead, just one week before the big event, Skye is suddenly working double-duty.
While overseeing every nuptial detail, she’s also helping the police find out who hated the bridal consultant enough to kill her. Can Skye … More >>
Murder of a Wedding Belle: A Scumble River Mystery
Tags: Belle, bridal consultant, control freak, cousin, double duty, maid of honor, Murder, Mystery, psychologist, remainder mark, River, Scumble, scumble river, skye denison, Wedding, wedding planner
#1 by Roberta Alexander on April 17, 2010 - 12:45 am
Even cozies need believable characters, and the ones in “Belle” don’t quite cut it.
This time Skye Dennison is pressured into helping out at her cousin’s beyond-platinum wedding. When the wedding planner, a harsh taskmistress, ends up dead shortly before the nuptials, Skye has to fill in, as well as help find the murderer.
For a school psychologist, Skye certainly deals with a lot of bodies–is this book No. 12 in the series? Plus she’s got her own romantic troubles with too many suitors.
So, OK, this is as much fantasy as mystery. And nobody expects the characters in a fantasy to be all that realistic. But maybe it should be labeled “fantasy” rather than “mystery.”
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Harriet Klausner on April 17, 2010 - 1:29 am
Scrumble River school psychologist Skye Denison also serves as a consultant to the police department run by her boyfriend Wally Boyd. Six months ago, the Chief of Police asked Skye to marry him, but though she loves Wally she keeps putting him off with excuses as she fears placing her heart on the line again.
Trouble starts for Skye when her California cousin Riley decides to marry her powerful millionaire fiancé in Scrumble River. She reluctantly agrees to serve as maid of honor but when elitist snob wedding planner Belle Canfield informs Skye that her Cuz named her as her wedding assistant on this event, Skye becomes extremely upset. Although she tries, she cannot get out of working for the stern taskmistress who antagonizes everyone she meets until Belle pushes someone over the edge and murders her. Skye assists Wally on the homicide investigation while also putting together the marriage ceremony as the paid wedding planner.
As always with a Scrumble River police procedural (see Murder of a Royale Pain) Denise Swanson combines humor and romance within an intriguing homicide investigation while the support cast feels like friends. There are plenty of suspects just on the wedding list and Skye using her psychological skills find many with strong motives, but must ferret out who would act on the desire. Readers who have put together a social event like a wedding will commiserate with the heroine, as she finds relief in working the Murder of a Wedding Belle.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 5 / 5