The Wedding Guest
(Alex Delaware 34) An Unputdownable Murder Mystery from the Internationally Bestselling Master of Suspense
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4.1 • 94 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An uninvited guest. A missing identity. A trail of deadly secrets.
When a horrified bridesmaid finds the body of a young woman at a wedding reception, it makes the bride and groom's choice of a Saints and Sinners theme all the more macabre.
There are no means of identification and nobody knows the victim.
The bride is convinced someone is trying to sabotage her big day. The groom is sure it's a dreadful mistake. . .
It is up to brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis to uncover the truth. They have a hundred guests to question, and a strong suspicion that the motive for murder is personal.
The party is over. And the hunt for the killer is on.
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'Jonathan Kellerman's new crime thriller delivers a killer wedding in more ways than one. . . a thoroughly engaging whodunit' CULTUREFLY
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Jonathan Kellerman's readers love The Wedding Guest:
'Unputdownable!'
'The book ticks all of the boxes and does not disappoint'
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'This book had me gripped throughout'
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'I devoured it in one sitting!'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Edgar winner Kellerman's workmanlike 34th whodunit featuring L.A. psychologist Alex Delaware (after 2018's Night Moves), a guest at a wedding held at a former strip joint is looking for a bathroom when she stumbles across a female corpse. During the subsequent police investigation, none of the wedding attendees admits to knowing the victim, who was drugged with an injection of fentanyl in her neck before being garroted. Alex and his LAPD friend, Lt. Milo Sturgis, follow predictable lines of inquiry, including tracing the strip joint's former owner and determining whether anyone hated the bride or groom enough to ruin the celebration. They eventually identify the victim as 31-year-old Suzanne DaCosta, but she had no known links to the newlyweds. Some possibly related deaths include one that Alex and Milo learn of by pure chance when a Polish expat working in the coroner's office informs them of a murder in her native country, whose m.o. matches that of DaCosta. Kellerman has done better both with plotting and with bringing the reader inside the heads of his characters.
Customer Reviews
Terribly written, hard to follow
The characters are not authentic, the plot is not suspensful and at times difficult to follow. One of the worst books I have read in a while..
Too much information
I got lost in the descriptions of condo owners and tenants and of the details of the villain’s past. Didn’t really catch on to his motives for murder. Altogether a strange book with a weird plot.