Till Death Do Us Port
It’s June in Boulder, Colorado, and wedding season is in full swing. Vintner Parker Valentine is excited to attend the wedding of her cousin, Emma, where in addition to celebrating the happy couple, she’ll also be providing wine for the reception. But when the fussy wedding planner is found dead midway through the ceremony, Parker knows that to get the weekend back on track, she’ll need to unveil a murderer.
Unfortunately, there’s no shortage of high tension and hot tempers during a wedding, so Parker has a long list of potential suspects. Even worse, her entire family is fixated on the state of Parker’s relationship with her boyfriend, Reid. If Parker can manage to impress her relatives with her wine skills and dodge unwanted pointed personal questions, solving a murder will be the icing on the cake.
The Details
Series: Colorado Wine Mystery – Book #4
Author: Kate Lansing
Genre/Category: Cozy – Amateur Sleuth/Wine
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 059354627X
Page Count: 304
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The Review
I like Parker; she has spunk. For a vintner who obsesses over which wine tastes best with which food dish more than she does with her romantic relationship and gets sidetracked with murder investigations, she isn’t your typical main character. But then again, this isn’t a typical murder mystery.
It’s wedding season, and vintner Parker is providing the wine for her cousin’s reception, but before the bride and groom can say I do, the wedding planner is found dead, and fingers are pointed in every direction except the right one. Parker has to put on her thinking cap and find the killer before the wrong person goes to prison and the killer goes free. This book has more suspects than you can shake a stick at. Evidence leads to so many people it’s hard to keep them straight, but Parker does her best to corner every suspect and confront them head-on.
I like the twists and turns that keep readers guessing, but it wasn’t hard to figure out who the killer was. The investigation is more about Parker being nosy, but it’s her mother’s help on the case that seals the wedding planner killer’s fate. Parker is no stranger to unusual pairings as a vintner, but pairing up with her mother to solve a murder might be the strangest one yet. Till Death Do Us Port is a complex, entertaining story about relationships and their intricacies more than a mystery. But this is also what makes this book and the series worth reading. A word of advice; if you haven’t read any of this series, don’t start with this book. Go back to the beginning; otherwise, you will be lost.
The Author
Kate Lansing is an award-winning short-story author. She lives in Denver, Colorado, with her husband, daughter, and a chair-napping tabby cat named Maple. Her love for mysteries began when she devoured From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler as a young girl and has grown from there. Contact Kate via social media or her website.
Readers will want to begin this series with the first two books, Killer Chardonnay and A Pairing to Die For.
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