Wedding bells are in the air for Matt and Paige. You would think Ryli and Aunt Shirley would be hard at work preparing for the bachelorette party and wedding down at the family lake house. Instead, they are up to their ears in murder and dead bodies. Unfortunately, Ryli seems to be the number one suspect according to the Cavern Beach Police Department. Hoping to stay out of jail and make it to … the wedding on time, Ryli and Aunt Shirley hunker down to catch the killer. Between jello shots and unwilling strippers, Ryli and Aunt Shirley chase down and narrow down their list of suspects. But will they find the real killer before the wedding ceremony and before Ryli is taken into custody for the murders? Or, more importantly, before Ryli ends up being the next victim.
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Ryli and her Aunt Shirley are getting ready for her brother Matt’s wedding to her best friend, Paige, at a lake house when Ryli finds their neighbor dead after a heated argument. The chauvinistic police chief thinks Ryli did it and is apposed to looking for any other suspects. This chief is also related to Ryli’s top suspects, which might explain his unwillingness to look further than her. I like the characters and the mystery is interesting. I can’t wait for the next Ryli mystery!
family-dynamics, friendship, situational-humor, verbal-humor, law-enforcement, murder, cozy-mystery
Laugh your sox off! I mean, not even the first murder was funny or the fact that it happened a few days before the wedding they came back to town for, it’s the characters! There’s Auntie Shirley and the police chief and the obsessed real estate agent for starters. I loved it!
Shoshannah Kramer does a great job of giving appropriate voices to the characters as well as the general narration.
I won this audiobook in a giveaway! I win!
This review is for the audio book.
This is the first book by this author that I have listened to or read but it won’t be the last as I really enjoyed it, I might have to get book one. I liked the characters but especially the feisty Aunt Shirley and found her antics very funny but glad she isn’t my aunt or I would have died from embarrassment. The mystery was good but I had worked out who the killer was before the end of the book. Still a good listen that I enjoyed.
Ryli’s brother is marrying her best friend but things don’t run smoothly for the happy couple. First they have to deal with a drunk aunt Shirley helping to plan there big day. The second problem is when the girls arrive at the lake house cabin they arrive just in time to get caught up in a murder. Ryli is the one to find the body and automatically becomes the number one suspect in the eyes of the police. Under the fear of being arrested Ryli and aunt Shirley start to question old friends and follow clues in the hopes to solve the murder before the wedding. Despite the murder casting a dark shadow over the whole presiding the girls decide to go ahead and have the hen party, that is until the police break up the celebrations with the news that another close friend had been murdered and they are looking even harder at Ryli. Can Aunt Shirley put down the jello shots and cake tasting samples in time to get to the bottom of the murders?
I like the narrator and thought she did a good job giving each character there own voice and bringing the story to life.
Who wouldn’t want to have Aunt Shirley as their sidekick! What a great team with Ryli, Aunt Shirley and all the others. Love all the characters. Such wonderful personalities. Murder seems to find Ryli wherever she goes. Glad she’s got a great bunch to back her up. Did not see that killer coming but sure made sense. Great series. Really loving it. I can’t put these books down.