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The Wedding Plot

By Paula Munier
The Wedding Plot by Paula Munier digital book - Fable

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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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“Ok, it’s official. I’m in a full-blown doggie reading binge. This marks the third book I’ve read this month with a doggie MC. I love my cozy, doggie, mystery series. They’re a nice break from the gruesome murder and violent mayhem that I read so much of these days. While these stories will often center around a murder, the investigations never seem to be as dangerous, violent, and gruesome as so many other murder stories often are. Hence, the genre “cozy” mysteries. I like this particular duo, Mercy & Elvis, and usually enjoy their adventures and escapes. Mercy is a former MP who’s been kind of aimlessly existing (not sure how she survives with no employment) with her former bomb sniffing dog, Elvis, since both were honorably discharged and returned to Mercy’s hometown in Vermont. It’s here that Mercy and Elvis and their motley crew of friends and relatives look after each other and solve a few crimes in the process in their small town. The book summary pretty much lays out the two different storylines going on in the book so, I’m not going to repeat any of it here. However, what the book summary didn’t reveal or the story itself are any of the details of when and how Mercy and Troy got back together. The end of the last book had them breaking up and Mercy walking out on Troy after finding out that he was married. This book starts with them together like nothing happened and absolutely no details on when they got back together. WTH????? Pretty early in the story, I started thinking that perhaps that Paula Munier didn’t write this book or that the person who did write it didn’t read the previous book. Whoever wrote this book did a disservice to the MC’s, Mercy and Troy, and their relationship. Starting with the passage where they’re asked if they’re together and Troy says yes, and Mercy says no. A few pages later their sleeping together. I could go on, but I won’t waste the time and space other than to say that this break in character development was another missed opportunity by Munier. It's kind of insulting that Munier thinks her fans/readers are too stupid to pick up on this vital omission. Seriously!!!!! Who knows, maybe it’s Munier who forgot what happened in her last book. Whatever, stuff like that can actually take away from a storyline when a simple resolution can add to it. Munier missed an opportunity here. What do I know though? I’m not a writer; I’m just an avid reader. The storylines were interesting enough and the investigation of the crimes were intriguing enough with some intense and scary moments for the MC’s. The end (final 10-15%) was a bit of a hot mess but ended on a good note. I was just glad to finally finish it. Unfortunately, this was not my fave installment of the series. It was the lead up to the end and the resolution to the case and my earlier complaints that resulted in my feelings about this installment in the series. I’m still of the mindset that Munier didn’t write this book because the writing style and quality just seemed so lacking. If I could give it a 2.5star rating, I would. I still intend to continue with the series and won’t blow it off because of one not so good installment.”
Rolling on the Floor Laughing Face“It was an amusing book and the characters were ridiculous but I didn’t really love the mystery part. I felt like it was a little too silly to be taken seriously”

About Paula Munier

PAULA MUNIER is the USA TODAY bestselling author of the Mercy Carr mysteries. A Borrowing of Bones, the first in the series, was nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award and named the Dogwise Book of the Year. Blind Search also won a Dogwise Award. The Hiding Place and The Wedding Plot both appeared on several “Best Of” lists. HOME AT NIGHT, the fifth book in the series, was inspired by her volunteer work as a Natural Resources Steward of New Hampshire. Along with her love of nature, Paula credits the hero dogs of Mission K9 Rescue, her own rescue dogs, and a deep affection for New England as her series’ major influences. A literary agent by day, she’s also written three popular books on writing: Plot Perfect, The Writer’s Guide to Beginnings, and Writing with Quiet Hands, as well as Happier Every Day and the memoir Fixing Freddie: The True Story of a Boy, a Mom, and a Very, Very Bad Beagle. She lives in New England with her family and Bear the Newfoundland-retriever rescue, Bliss the Great Pyrenees-Australian cattle dog rescue, pandemic puppy Blondie, a Malinois rescue (much like Elvis in her books), and Ursula The Cat, a rescue torbie tabby who does not think much of the dogs.

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