The Wedding Plot
A Mercy Carr Mystery
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The Wedding Plot, USA Today bestselling author Paula Munier's fourth Mercy Carr mystery, finds Mercy and Elvis at a deadly Vermont wedding.
Love never dies a natural death…
When Mercy’s grandmother Patience marries her longtime beau Claude Renault at the five-star Lady’s Slipper Inn, it promises to be the destination wedding of the year. Just as the four-day extravaganza is due to begin, the inn’s spa director Bodhi St. George disappears—and Mercy’s mother Grace sends Mercy and Elvis to find him. But what they discover instead is a stranger skewered by a pitchfork in the barn on the goat farm where St. George lived.
As Mercy tries to figure out who the victim is and where St. George is hiding, the bride and groom’s estranged relations gather for the first of the pre-wedding festivities. Long-buried rivalries and resentments surface—and Mercy realizes that they’re all keeping secrets that could tear both families apart. When Elvis interrupts the escalating melodrama to alert Mercy to an intruder on the estate, she finds a wounded St. George in the cottage where she and Troy are staying. St. George is not who he says he is—but when he escapes from the hospital and disappears again, Mercy thinks he’s gone for good. With the wedding imminent and the families at each other’s throats, she decides finding St. George will have to wait.
The big day arrives—but the danger is far from over. With the families and the festivities still under threat, it’s up to Mercy and Elvis together with Troy and Susie Bear to stop the killer and save the bride and groom—before death do they part.
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Disaster looms over Vermont's five-star Lady's Slipper Inn just days before Mercy Carr's grandmother Patience's wedding, in Munier's enjoyable fourth mystery featuring the former MP and part-time investigator (after 2021's The Hiding Place). Family tensions flare when free-spirited Aunt Verity arrives in time to upset both the event's carefully laid plans and her sister, Grace. Groom Claude Renault, meanwhile, has his share of domestic troubles with his two grown sons at each other's throats over the family's business empire. Matters go from bad to worse when Mercy and her Malinois shepherd, Elvis, searching for the inn's missing spa director, Bodhi St. George, discover a stranger's body on a nearby goat farm. When a wounded St. George turns up at the hospital and later escapes, and a missing girl's remains and another body are discovered at the farm, Mercy and Elvis—with the aid of her boyfriend, game warden Troy Warner, and his dog, Susie Bear—must track down the killer before the wedding celebration descends into a funeral. Distinctive characters make up for the book's convoluted second half in which too much goes on. Still, this is fine escapist fare for a hot summer day.
Avis d’utilisateurs
Great, but…
I loved this story as much as all the rest.
The ending I wish resolved with the decision of Patience and Claude. I wish there was one more story; a story for just Mercy and Troy.
This ending seemed just an afterthought to a series ending.
Are Vermont storms really so fierce?
Vermont is a small state, but a plot where everyone knows everyone, plus a few too many coincidences, unfortunately stretched credibility enough to be distracting. Fortunately, strong and detailed character development endeared this reader to certain characters and elicited growing dislike for others (just the bad guys), although I do start to lose patience with Patience. As is intended, I suppose, or perhaps I’m just jealous that my family doesn’t indulge my eccentricities so lovingly.
Finally, my very smart and lovely German Shepherd would like to meet Elvis, even though he is a Malinois.