Book Review: Otherwise Engaged

Reviewed By: Dawn Dowdle

Otherwise Engaged     Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Laura Young
Class/Genre:   Mystery
Silver Dagger, Paperback, 2004, 202 pages, $9.95

Kate Kelly’s cousin Adam wants her to pose as his friend Brett’s fiancée for a weekend at Brett’s family Kentucky horse farm. Brett’s mom is throwing him an engagement party, but his real bride-to-be has disappeared. She is a travel reporter and the magazine agrees to pay her expenses and those of a photographer so she can write about her experiences. Kate begins to think she made a mistake in agreeing, even as soon as moments after she has agreed.

Soon after arriving at Blue Grass Winds, his family’s horse farm, a car blows up. There was someone inside, but they can’t identify it immediately as it was too burned. The police begin investigating, but the family, including Brett, is not very helpful.

Kate soon discovers that someone is trying to scare her into leaving. They are using pranks, sometimes nasty or dangerous, but still just pranks. Brett keeps disappearing and she can’t figure out what is going on. His mother is mentally unstable and is against the marriage.

Kate decides she’d better figure out who is behind all of this and what is going on before her life is in real danger.

This is a fabulous mystery. I laughed out loud many times. Some of the situations seem so unreal, but yet you know they could happe,n and they make you laugh. I hope there will be more Kate Kelly mysteries. I would love to read them.

I highly recommend this book.

Dawn Dowdle

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