**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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This book is like taking a vacation to the Pincushion Palace. You drive for hours to get there and are so disappointed when you do arrive.
Delightful characters and funny storyline. Could almost see it happening in a movie.
It was OK. The characters were not particularly engaging.
I enjoyed this!
Cute story and characters
Liked the self-deprecating humor of the heroine wedding planner with the misquoting sidekick reminiscent of Yogi Berra.
I loved the gossipy side of the main characters. After all it is set in Washington, DC!
It was a “fun” read and it helps you escape reality for a while!
I can’t wait to read more adventures with these characters.
Nothing deep, but fun brain candy.
Just a fun read!!
Very entertaining and a lot of fun! The protagonist, Annabelle Archer, is a young wedding planner in the D.C. area, assisted by her malaprop-dropping aide, Kate, and their caterer friend, Richard. As though pulling together the perfect wedding isn’t hard enough, Annabelle’s latest fete is dampened by a corpse and Richard may be a suspect. Annabelle herself is a bit of a cipher but three other characters are almost larger than life as they fit into clichéd stereotypes: the sexy ditz, the over-the-top gay man, the daffy elderly neighbor. Nevertheless, all four characters mesh very well and the “reveal” may catch the reader off guard unless every little clue is caught and remembered.
Lackluster
Great cozy series. I plan to read more.
Interesting concept. Kept my interest.
Murder mystery that keeps you guessing until the end. Believable, witty and likeable characters.
Easy read with interesting characters.
I loved this book!! Already told my book bub friends to order it!! So funny!! Great plot and hard to put down!
Very cute, enjoyable, and fast read. Characters are well-developed and have personality to spare. Fun series.
Well I have finally found a cozy mystery that actually lives up to it’s fanfare from the jacket blurbs and most other reviews. I like to read a light mystery with some humour to unwind after reading a more serious, dark, gritty or violent crime novel such as I just had with Sean Chercover’s “The Devil’s Game” and this one sure provided me with the laughs I needed from some really quirky characters. Richard is an absolute hoot! Katie’s messing up the favourite sayings didn’t annoy me too much but maybe it is kind of stretched out too far even if many times Katie’s version fit right into the situation at hand. I guessed the murderer well before the big reveal and for a change I was right but that took nothing away from Annabelle’s investigation. I will definitely read more of this series when I need another light come down read although, as I do favour Canadian authors, I have the first of another series to try to see if it fits it’s advertisements now that I have just finished Anthony Bidulka’s “Set Free