Better Off Wed (Annabelle Archer Wedding Planner Mystery Book 1)
**Winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel!**Planning weddings can be murder. But stumbling across dead bodies usually isn’t on the itinerary. Can a wedding planner use her skills to discover who’s killing her clients?Society wedding planner Annabelle Archer is no stranger to wedding day...
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**Winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel!**Planning weddings can be murder. But stumbling across dead bodies usually isn’t on the itinerary. Can a wedding planner use her skills to discover who’s killing her clients?Society wedding planner Annabelle Archer is no stranger to wedding day stress, but a dead body at her latest fete takes the cake. When suspicion falls on her best friend and caterer Richard Gerard, she knows she must find the real culprit before his career is ruined along with her reputation for solving problems. But it’s no easy feat since the slain mother-of-the-bride was the most hated socialite in the city. As Annabelle navigates DC’s powerful social scene to unmask the culprit, there’s no telling how many more victims the killer will claim or if Annabelle and her friends will be among them.Better Off Wed is the first book in the Annabelle Archer cozy mystery series. If you like charming characters, fast-paced comedy, and behind-the-scenes glimpses into the wild world of weddings, then you’ll love Laura Durham’s Agatha award-winning mystery. Get Better Off Wed to discover the award-winning mystery series today!
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Format: Kindle Edition
ISBN:
9780999149409
ASIN: B073FYLK6L
Publish date: 2017-06-27
Publisher: Broadmoor Books, LLC
Pages no: 229
Edition language: English
Series: Annabelle Archer (#1)
This is a cute little cozy with an entertaining cast of characters, even if it’s almost nonsensical. It was fun to watch a wedding planner, her assistant, and her caterer ineptly fumble their way through a murder investigation, but at the same time I was never really clear on why they’d decided to p...
Date Published: January 25, 2005 Format: NOOK Ebook Source: Own Copy Date Read: May 2-6, 2019 Blurb The murder of a particularly difficult mother-of-the-bride has cast a pall on wedding planner Annabelle Archer's latest triumph -- and suspicion falls heavily on her sometime-business partner and fr...
I enjoyed this funny cozy mystery. Everything made sense. Liked the characters. A tiny whiff of possible romance -- absolutely no hint of any love triangles. Certainly did not read like a freebie. Best review I can write for this is that I plan on continuing the series.
Since I am pressed for time just going to say that I really enjoyed the first book in this series. It was everything you want a cozy mystery to be. Not gory, funny, and a cast of memorable characters. The main character is Annabelle Archer, wedding planner. When a demanding mother of the bride end...