**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 … 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.
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It was a fun read with great characters! Enjoy this book!
A fun story.
Annabelle is a wedding planner with a problem. She has been deeming with a particularly difficult mother of the bride. Unfortunately things get even worse when she discovers the woman dead and her best friend and caterer is thought to have poisoned her. She sets off to discover who actually killed her.
This is a wonderfully written cozy mystery about a wedding planner and her associates. The characters are interesting and engaging with somewhat quirky personalities. The story is told from Annabelle’s point of view providing insight into her thought processes, her deductions, motivations and actions. The mystery itself is full of great suspects,, numerous clues, surprises, danger and just a hint of romance. This is an interesting cozy mystery and I look forward to reading more about these fun characters.
A wonderful group of characters that you enjoy spending time getting to know.
It was better than I thought it would be. The premise was believable, as was the protagonist, but some of the supporting cast were somewhat of a caricature. If you like Hallmark mysteries — one of my guilty pleasure — you’ll enjoy this one. And no, I didn’t guess who the murderer was.
This book has everything and more that you want from a cozy mystery. Quirky character Kate you can’t seem to get an idiom right, but hers are funny and may fit better then the ears ones. Richard is a funny over the top caterer that Annabelle’s We’d tries to use as much as possible. This book has a great plot, humor and maybe a tad bit of romance the interaction between the three main characters, Annabelle, Richard and Kate made me laughter out loud several times and not many books do that.Detective Reese has some funny lined.
Annabelle Wed’s is workiing with the Mother of the Bride from hell and Annabelle even jokes to her employees that it would be better if she just died and she does. She was murdered and there are a lot of suspects. I didn’t figure out the murderer until Annabelle did. If you like Cozy mysteries, you will love this one.
This book was fun! I read it fairly quickly. I like the angle of a wedding planner having to solve the murder of her client. Lots of twists. I didn’t see the end coming, which is unusual for me.
Loved this story about a wedding planner who turns detective when she finds the dead body of one of the guests at the wedding she has painstakingly arranged. Full of intrigue, great humour and enough twists to keep you guessing, it was an absolute joy. Would highly recommend it.
Amusing.
There were several characters each presenting their own twist in the plot. The main character was always getting into situations. A cute cozy mystery.
Cute book. I might read it again some day.
Love this entire series!
Fun read with an intriguing mystery.
I found I was more engrossed than I expected. The mystery actually had many suspects and I took a while to figure out the culprit.
I enjoyed the easy style of the author and interesting characters . Unpredictable plot line
Great characters, such an enjoyable read. Plan to read the entire series.
A murder mystery first-in-a-series with a colorful bunch of characters and an infinite number of possibilities for plots.
I did enjoy this book. It was interesting and kept my attention.
I LOVED this author! I bought the whole series and loved every page of every book!
Great read with unforgettable characters and plenty of twists and turns. Look forward to reading more in this series.