This book reads like a comedy at first. It slowly unfolds into a story of a woman
being the maid of honor in three different weddings all in the same summer
(days apart). The comedy is not only
found in the ridiculousness of the small town (woman especially), but in the
situations themselves. It is a comedy
that mixes with mystery and a touch of horror with the lengths that the killer
is going to in order to cover their tracks.
This being a comedy means that something that should end in the leading protagonist
or her father dying becomes something where the father drives into a bale of
hay to brake his car or another man flying off of a lawnmower with the brakes
cut. It reads quickly and intimately due
to the facts that the characters are quirky and hilarious and that the chapters
are set up as dates (so, it reads as if the lead, Meg, is keeping a
diary). It is a cozy mystery because all
of the suspects and police know each other and the victims. It is insulated in that respect and allows
the reader to ‘get to know’ all of the suspects. This strange tale of ‘who done it’ even
allows for good character development that is usually ignored in mystery novels
and deemed insignificant. I would highly
recommend it to anyone with a dark sense of humor and an appreciation of the peculiar.
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