It’s June in Boulder, Colorado, and wedding season is in full swing. Parker Valentine is excited to attend the wedding of her cousin, Emma, where in addition to celebrating the happy couple, she’ll also be providing wine for the reception. But when the fussy wedding planner is found dead midway through the ceremony, Parker knows that to get the weekend back on track, she’ll need to unveil a murderer.
Unfortunately, there’s no shortage of high tension and hot tempers during a wedding, so Parker has a long list of potential suspects. Even worse, her entire family has fixated on the state of Parker’s relationship with her boyfriend, Reid. If Parker can manage to impress her relatives with her wine skills and dodge unwanted pointed personal questions, solving a murder will be the icing on the cake.
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- ISBN: 9780593546284
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Kirkus
February 15, 2023
Murder messes up a family wedding. Colorado winemaker Parker Valentine is well aware that not everything is going smoothly at her cousin Emma's nuptials. Emma's mom and stepmom can barely be civil to each other, and Josie, one of her two bridesmaids, falls into hysterics at the drop of a hat because she can't forget that her own bridegroom left her at the altar. But when Prynne Pearsall, the obnoxious wedding planner Emma's stepmom insisted on hiring, is found dead in the ballroom just before the start of the ceremony, chaos rises to a whole new level. Parker responds as the genre demands: She shrugs aside advice from the police and her family not to investigate on her own, and her sleuthing amps up as the police zero in on her relatives as prime suspects. She's also presented with the requisite romantic distractions. Now that her boyfriend, Reid, is in Napa Valley scouting locations for a second restaurant, Parker wonders whether their relationship will withstand even intermittent separations. Like her setting, Lansing's prose has its highs and lows. She establishes a strong sense of place with evocative descriptions of Boulder's majestic scenery but drops in misused words and phrases that may leave some readers scratching their heads. (Parker describes her Syrah as "the perfect companion for mulled wine, or in the summer, sangria" and asserts that her winery "erupt[s] into a fervor of whispers.") No surprises, a few miscues, but some genuine pleasures.COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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