Review: Wedding Bells Brew Murder
Sara and Sean Cozy Mystery Series #2
by Carolyn Arnold
Published: August 29, 2023
Publisher: Hibbert & Stiles Publishing Inc.
Genre: Mystery, Thrillers, Cozy Mystery
Blurb:
With all the guests at Sara and Sean’s wedding suspected of murder, her walk down the aisle will need to wait...
Everything is going perfectly on the big day until Sara opens the door of her bridal suite. Darlene Day, who made the wedding cake, falls into the room, a serving knife plunged into her back.
As the organists start to play “Here Comes the Bride,” Sara calls a pause to the proceedings. There’s a murder to solve, and the motive may be in the icing.
Darlene wasn’t the most loved person in the small town of Cotton Spring Falls, but rumor has it that she refused the offer of a big franchise to buy her bakery. Did they go so far as murder to put her out of business?
But when it’s discovered their wedding cake was poisoned, Sara and Sean could have been the intended victims all along. Did Darlene stumble upon the killer’s conspiracy and they silenced her before she could reveal their secret? Is it someone on the invitation list or the mysterious wedding crasher?
As long as the coffee is hot, and Sara has Sean and her beagle, Magnum, at her side, she isn’t going down in a heap of tulle and lace.
Wedding Bells Brew Murder is a closed-room mystery in the fashion of the great Agatha Christie that fans of Emma Davies, Verity Bright, and Helena Dixon will enjoy reading.
My Review:
Wedding Bells Brew Murder is the second book in the Sara and Sean Cozy Mystery Series by Carolyn Arnold. I fell in love with Sara and Sean in the first book in the series Bowled Over Americano but I must say that even though Bowled Over Americano was a great read I enjoyed Wedding Bells Brew Murder way more.
Wedding Bells Brew Murder started off with a blast and a murder and never let up. Once I started reading I was hooked. After the mystery began there was no way I could lay it down. I mean Carolyn Arnold knows how to lay out a mystery that will keep you wanting to read. I mean everything starts off in one direction and ends up in several more before everything is revealed in the end.
I mean right from the start you have the murder, the body, the murder weapon, and several suspects. She will lead you in one direction and then take you off in another. You think you know who the killer is then another twist is thrown in and you think wait a minute no way it can’t be. You think you have it all figured out and you are waiting for all the clues to be revealed because you are like I know who did it. But of course, you were wrong all along.
Wedding Bells Brew Murder opens with Sara, her mom, and her two maids of honor in the bridal suite minutes from walking down the aisle when there is a knock on the door. Who is knocking at the door now?
The knocker is none other than the lady who baked the wedding cake with a knife in her back. Dorothy dies minutes after walking in the door only saying one word, icing. Icing what does this entail and what does it have to do with her murder or murderer?
Well, that one word, icing left me with so many questions but no one seemed to follow up on it. I wanted to scream at them to check the icing but no one did. Detectives. The detective, Ryan Doyle in charge of the murder case reminded me of Dewey from the movie Scream, Deputy Sheriff Dwight "Dewey" Riley.
Wedding Bells Brew Murder itself reminded me of the movie Clue as it was set in a locked room or building where the murder happened and where the wedding was supposed to take place.
I loved Wedding Bells Brew Murder so much that I highly recommend it to everyone looking for the next great read! Grab a copy of Wedding Bells Brew Murder today for another great mystery!
Be sure and check out all the books In the Sara and Sean Cozy Mystery Series.
Bowled Over Americano #1
Wedding Bells Brew Murder #2
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