Book Review: May the Best Man Die

Reviewed By: Dawn Dowdle

May the Best Man Die     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Deborah Donnelly
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy
Series: Carnegie Kincaid # 3
Dell, Paperback, 10/03, 319 pages, $5.99

Carnegie Kincaid is a wedding planner in Seattle. Normally she doesn’t plan stag parties. She plans weddings. But, her new client insisted. After she left the party, she ends up looking through binoculars to watch the party. Why? Her significant other, although they’re currently having trouble, is at the party. What she doesn’t know is that a killer is there, too.

The next day the best man is pulled from the canal. Who could have killed him? What did she see in those binoculars? Anything important? After she tells police what she saw and gets a friend in trouble, she decides she’d better look into things herself before telling them anything else. She gets Aaron, her significant other, to help her.

Not only does she have this New Year’s Eve wedding to be planning, she has another Christmas wedding to plan. And now Ivy, the mother of the bride for the New Year’s Eve wedding, has asked her to plan another party.

Since the murder is related to that wedding, she wants to spend as much time as possible with the parties to try to determine who could have been the murderer. Can she do that before anyone else is murdered, including herself? Plus what about her new love interest? Will this muddy the waters?

Carnegie is a great character. She is a lot of fun, and she gets herself into predicaments throughout the book. I felt it was a very believable story, and a lot of fun to read. I can’t wait to read more.

I am originally from Washington State, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading a book set in Seattle. I think the author does a great job of weaving the wedding planning and the sleuthing.

I highly recommend this book.

Dawn Dowdle

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