A Mourning Wedding
A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
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4.2 • 64 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The inimitable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her husband Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher seem to get a reprieve from their sleuthing duties when they are invited to the wedding of their friend, Lucy Fotheringay.
Lucy's grandfather is hosting the ceremony at his beautiful estate and so it promises to be a typical affair with hordes of gossipy aunts and other colorful but not necessarily pleasant relatives. Daisy meets all these characters and observes the ensuing familial fraternization with a certain kind of amusing nonchalance. That is, until Lucy's great aunt is found strangled to death in her bed. Lucy, in the meantime, has arranged to meet her betrothed in the conservatory, but when she arrives she finds him trying to revive her uncle, who has died-or has he been murdered? And just like that a normally celebratory occasion turns suspicious. Now Daisy must sift through a throng of relatives-aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents- once wedding guests and now murder suspects. And she must find the killer quickly before another family member becomes a corpse.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Carola Dunn's 13th cozy historical, A Mourning Wedding: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery, two murders-the first of the bride's great-aunt, the second of her uncle-upset an aristocratic English wedding. Carefully crafted characters, plenty of plot twists, a high-class setting and an altogether satisfactory conclusion make for top-hole entertainment. Agent, Alice Volpe at Northwest Literary Agency. .
Customer Reviews
Not up to the usual Daisy standards
I am a Daisy fan but this book can't compare to the others. For one thing, it badly needed a cast of characters or family tree in the beginning to help the reader keep all the "nobs" straight. Instead, the family tree appears at the end of the novel, too late to be helpful. For another, not even two murders and an attempted one managed to keep up the suspense.