Once and Always Murder
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Back in her hometown, McKenna quickly remembers why she left
Waverly, Connecticut, has turned its back on most modern conveniences. It has no cinema, no strip malls, no supermarket. Groceries are nearly an hour's drive away, along spotty two-lane roads that get blocked the moment snow starts to fall. True-crime writer Patience McKenna, on her way to Waverly for her wedding, remembers the roads well enough to navigate the patch ice. Her hometown feels lost in time, but on this trip, it will be anything but boring. Bloody, yes, but never dull.
An old-money quarrel over a piece of land turns violent just a few days before her wedding. Members of McKenna's family start dropping, and while the world may be better off without her crackpot relatives, Pay needs to clean up the mess. She wanted a white wedding—not one that's blood red.
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Patience McKenna, romance writer, detective and heroine of several Papazoglou titles ( Sweet, Savage Death ) returns to her Connecticut hometown to be wed, but first she must solve the murders of a few privileged relatives and friends. A quarrel over a piece of land whose ownership is disputed among the local gentry leads to the deaths of an uncle, a loathed elderly aunt and the young wife of a popular trance channeler before Pay, delving into local pre-Revolutionary archives, can ferret out a motive. Papazoglou's buoyant heroine chatters her way though this mildly diverting, unconvincing succession of set pieces, dismayed by her family's assured old-money ways but ultimately undaunted. The thin, hard-to-credit plot and jarring notes (such as her friend Phoebe's imminent delivery of a baby diagnosed in utero with spina bifida) spoil the lighthearted rhythm. The distracted McKenna, however, remains a likable character.
