Wedding Bear Blues
At the Silver Bear Shop and Factory, Sasha will be selling plenty of bride, and groom teddy bears come springtime. But this Valentine’s Day weekend, she’d take any of those silent, stuffed couples over the real thing. Sasha and her sister Maddie are bridesmaids at Cissy Davison’s upcoming wedding in Silver Hollow. Cissy is fuming over the worst choice of best man–the jerk who broke her sister Debbie’s heart, and the groom-to-be won’t budge in his decision. At the rehearsal dinner, you could cut the tension with a wedding cake knife.
That is, until best man Dylan is found dead, impaled with an ice pick. Although jilted Debbie is the most likely suspect, the blood on her dress doesn’t help her case; the bride begs Sasha to prove her sister’s innocence. If anyone’s going to walk down the aisle, Sasha will first need to find the cold-hearted killer who iced Dylan.
Series: Shamelessly Adorable Teddy Bear Mystery – Book #4
Author: Meg Macy
Genre/Category: Cozy – Amateur Sleuth/Hobby
Publisher: Kensington Books
Page Count: 336
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Weddings and brides are a pain most of the time; add a bride that makes demands that are a bit outrageous, and, surprisingly, she isn’t the victim of murder. Unfortunately for Sasha, in the new addition to the “Shamelessly Adorable Teddy Bear Mystery” series, Wedding Bear Blues she has to tolerate the demands to make everyone happy. Then just when she thought things couldn’t get any worse, the best man is murdered, and it’s up to her to find the killer and save the wedding.
The main character Sasha, her sister, Maddie, and the entire family are delightful characters. But the bride, groom, and their entourage are almost unbearable! It comes as no surprise when the best man is killed or when Sasha is put on the spot and asked to solve the murder so the wedding can be rescheduled. Even though she isn’t very fond of the bride and doesn’t care about any of the other bridal party members, except for her sister, she agrees to help.
With everything Sasha has going on, the bear factory, her aunt and uncle and their sick daughter visiting, a fundraiser to coordinate, and the demands of her personal life, she doesn’t have time for a demanding bride or a murder investigation. Suspects are everywhere, and evidence is almost none existent. There are a great many turns and twists that will keep readers flipping the page and trying to figure out who didn’t have a motive to kill the best man, and later on, a bridesmaid.
In the end, Sasha uncovers the killer’s identity and gets a confession witnessed by several people. The wedding takes place after several attempts, and the bride is at long last happy and undemanding. The fundraiser is a great success and brought in donated teddy bears from everywhere and money to help not only Sasha’s young cousin but other people living with cancer. All-in-all, everything worked out for the best. Sasha can put away her detective cap once again. Wedding Bear Blues is a hit.
Readers will enjoy other cozy series such as G.P. Gardner’s art-inspired “A Cleo Mack Mystery” series or Mary Ellen Hughes’ collectors series “A Keepsake Cove Mystery”.
About the Author:
Clocks and time play a big part in any late bloomer’s life. And time plays a vital part in every mystery. Award-winning mystery author Meg Macy lives in Southeast Michigan, close enough to Ann Arbor, Chelsea, and Dexter — the area she chose for the setting of her new “Shamelessly Adorable Teddy Bear” cozy mystery series for Kensington.
She is also one-half of the writing team of D.E. Ireland for the Eliza Doolittle & Henry Higgins Mystery series; two books have been named Agatha Award finalists. Meg’s first published book, Double Crossing, won the 2012 Best First Novel Spur Award from Western Writers of America. She’s a graduate of Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction program.
Meg is a member of WWA, Western Fictioneers, and Sisters in Crime. Born and raised in Michigan, Meg lives with her husband and enjoys gardening, crafts, reading mysteries, historical fiction, and adding more books to her Kindle.
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