Shadows on a Cape Cod Wedding
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $4.99
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Publisher Description
Antique print dealer Maggie Summer is happy to help her best friend Gussie with pre-wedding preparations on Cape Cod ... until she finds a body on the beach, and the close-knit New England community no longer seems so friendly. Why does the dead man's daughter say he died two years ago .. in Colorado? Who was supplying drugs to teenagers in town? Already nervous about a critical discussion she needs to have with the man in her life, Maggie immerses herself in the murder investigation and wedding plans ... and then there's another murder ... and a hurricane ... and Maggie herself becomes a target. Maybe this time around, Maggie's gotten herself in a little too deep.
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At the start of Agatha-finalist Wait's so-so sixth Antique Print mystery (after 2011's Shadows of a Down East Summer), Maggie Summer spots a man's body on a beach on Massachusetts's Cape Cod and dials 911. The local police chief, Ike Iron, who responds, identifies the man as Dan Jeffrey, a nasty drunk who was alienated from his grown daughter. Ike, who suspects Dan drowned, orders an inquest. Meanwhile, Maggie helps prepare for the wedding, just a week away, of her disabled friend, Gussie White, the ever-cheerful owner of the antique shop Aunt Augusta's Attic. Amid what turns into a plodding homicide investigation, Maggie must contend with a number of social issues, such as the groom's decision to invite a guest with Down's syndrome and her desire to adopt a baby girl against her boyfriend's wishes. A second murder and a looming hurricane inject some suspense into what is otherwise a routine cozy.
