In this latest Mac Faraday Mystery from best-selling mystery author Lauren Carr, readers will embark on a rollercoaster adventure with old friends (including the Lovers in Crime team of Prosecutor Joshua Thornton and Homicide Detective Cameron Gates), but also meet new ones as Mac Faraday’s daughter Jessica Faraday and Joshua Thornton’s son Murphy Thornton join the team in the race to get the … love birds to the altar!
With three days left to the year, Deep Creek Lake is hopping with holiday vacationers and wedding guests pouring into the Spencer Inn for Mac Faraday and Archie Monday’s huge wedding ceremony which is being touted as the social event of the year.
But droopy flowers and guests who failed to RSVP are the least of Mac’s and Archie’s problems when a professional hit squad hits Spencer Manor to send the groom, Joshua Thornton, Archie’s mother, and Gnarly running for their lives.
With time running out to the big day, Mac Faraday and Spencer’s small police force have to sort through the clues to figure out not only who has been targeted for assassination, but also who is determined to stop everything … FOREVER!
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From Baghdad, Irag to Deep Creek Lake, MD the danger and excitement increases in volume.
For those unfamiliar with this series, author Lauren Carr provides a brief introduction to characters at the beginning. It is convenient to refer back to when things get complicated.
The tone of the Prologue is very dark, ugly and complicated.
Move ahead 18 months to part one, and while still complicated, it is easier and faster paced to read. The suspense begins building.
The focus seems to be on the upcoming nuptials of wealthy, retired Mac Faraday and his betrothed, Archie Monday. Archie is off with her bridesmaids for prewedding pampering, which proves to result in obstacles and misfortune. (Forboding)
Before Mac can leave home for his tux fitting, his day becomes unwelcomely exciting when a professional hit squad pins down his estate, including Gnarly, Mac’s shepherd, and Archie’s mother, who showed up unexpectedly, and groomsman Josh.
I really enjoyed what Agnes, the mother, brought to the story.
She provided some comic moments among the danger.
Most of Mac’s friends have special military training and even in civilian life they have occupations that create enemies. Anyone could be the target of the attacks through the course of this book. This wedding is drawing celebrities, the rich and powerful, the well connected to Deep Creek Lake.
To further complicate things, Mac’s daughter is almost kidnapped, Josh’s wife IS kidnapped, Mac is implicated in a murder, and the body count keeps rising.
Did I mention terrorists and a tarantula?
How can there possibly be a satisfying ending? Who will survive to attend a wedding?
Included in the plot are the grown children of Mac and his friends.
We learn more about each of them and I believe they will play larger roles as this series continues.
This review is for the audio book.
Wow, I am so glad I discovered this author because I just loved this book. There is so much going on that it is hard to pick just a few reasons why I enjoyed it so much but I will try. Firstly I think it is the characters. Okay there is a lot of them and all with there own personal connections and relationships and it did start of a bit confusing. Maybe it would have helped more if I started on book one but it didn’t take too long to get it straight and once I did I really liked them. There is plenty of humour to balance out the seriousness of the plot, from animal antics to one liners and general teasing and of course a disasters wedding. Secondly the plot it’s self was really good and had plenty of action and twist that kept me hooked. I liked how there is a mystery that is hidden behind a much more explosive terrorist plot and it is a book I can see myself revisiting in a few months, when it’s not so fresh in my memory. For now I am off to see what other books are in this series.
Planning a big wedding is never easy and something always goes wrong but nobody could predict how wrong Mac and Archie’s wedding could go. First Mac receives a photo of a man he put in jail partying with his to be wife on her hen night and the message I got this close. He sends his step brother round to warn the man to stay away only to find him dead in his hotel room. Then before the groom can collect his tux the brides mother turns up for a heart to heart, quickly followed by some gun tooting goons that will stop at nothing to get at there target. With guns blazing things get even worse when Mac’s own daughter becomes a target. Is someone trying to use her to get to her father? If so way? And can they figure it out before the body count raises any higher or Mac gets arrests for murder? The wedding might not be the only thing to get cancelled when the FBI gets involved and start talking about terrorists and beheadings.
I liked the narrator he does a good job of bringing the characters to life in this roller coaster ride.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request from audiobooksunleashed and have voluntarily left this review
The author has you guessing from beginning to end. It’s action packed along with a mystery through out. Laura Carr gives you what you look for in a mystery along with a little romance.
What up with all the Navy and military doing though out the book? Mac and Archie had been dealt with getting ready for their wedding. They’re a family secret and what could that be?
Somehow Mac Faraday and David and Cameron are targeted along with Archie mother. There’s a killer on the loose and they want something Mac Faraday has.
The terrorists wants to claim on a few members. They attempt to kidnap a woman. There seems to have a mishap at every turn. Will Murphy and the navy be heroes? This is a book is worth reading and getting the other books in the series would be worth buying. If you enjoy mystery or crime and detective books. This may be your cup of tea.