Name: Wedding Day Murder
ISBN: 9780786255979

Leslie Meier

Lucy is asked by her friend Sue Finch to help plan the wedding of Sue's daughter to an Internet millionaire. When the groom's body is found floating beside his yacht, Lucy's not convinced this was an accident. Soon, Lucy finds herself contemplating her own funeral as she launches a harrowing pursuit of a killer. (June) Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A Lucy Stone Mystery

Wedding Day Murder

Sarah Sammis

** spoiler alert **
           The bad: the wedding. There's something about weddings in books that makes some authors go stupid and get distracted from the majority of their plot. The first fifty-one percent of this novel is nothing but wedding planning. The groom's murder doesn't happen until just past the half way point. The mystery solving takes the next forty-five percent (if I'm generous) of the novel. The remaining time at the end is for more wedding stuff as a completely unnecessary coda.

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When her friend Sue asks her to help plan her daughter's wedding to Internet millionaire Ron Davitz, Lucy Stone gladly offers her assistance, but is confronted with murder when the groom is found floating next to his yacht. Reissue.

Briar's Reviews

Wedding Day Murder by Leslie Meier is a fun, cozy mystery to add to your TBR!

This book is short, sweet and to the point. There isn't much fluff yet it's super fluffy and contemporary at the same time. 

The plot is quite simple: Lucy's friend's daughter is getting married to a rich billionaire. This wedding is going to happen in Lucy's backyard because she got a new gazebo (ooooh...).Suddenly, the groom is killed and Lucy (a journalist for the local, seemingly small town newspaper) is trying to solve the case!

This series is easy to jump into. I had no problem sneaking my way into this story and not having any idea of what the rest of the books presented. I do wish I would have, mostly out of pure curiousity's sake, but I didn't need to. If you're planning to pick up one of these books, just do it! There's no need for a chronological order if you don't care about that sort of thing. This book also finishes itself up and doesn't leave cliffhangers, so it could easily be a standalone if you decide to not continue on with this series. I'll be hunting more books of this series down for a rainy day, that's for sure!

There's not many twists and turns in this book. I found it to be super straight forward. It's quite literally a "curl up with a blanket and cup of tea during a thunderstorm" kind of read (at least for me). 

I can say, without ruining the entire book, I found the ending quite sweet. That's the only part of this book that had me wondering about the rest of this series. Would I have felt more for the ending if I read the previous 7 books? It doesn't make a difference though, because it was lovely.

Overall, this book was sweet, simple and cute! I had been craving something I could just binge easily and not overwhelm my brain with and this was it!

Three out of five stars.

This is a good installment in the Lucy Stone series! It has some interesting time jumps and a lother of the small town interaction I like about the series in general.

I just wish they had gone a bit more in depth and not a have everything so on the surface. It was a quick and fun read for sure, but it could have been deeper and not suffered.

Wedding Day Murder A Lucy Stone Mystery

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