Reviewer: Connie Payne
Title: Weddings Can Be Murder
Author: Christie Craig
Publisher: Dorchester
ISBN-13: 9780505527318
Release Date: May 2008
Genre/Sub-genre: Contemporary Romance
Year/Setting: Present day
Overall Rating: 4.0
Sexual Content Rating: Sexual
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: Moderate+
Violent Content Rating: Moderate
Christie's Website:
www.christie-craig.com
Katie Ray’s wedding is right around the corner. And just the thought of it, or her fiancé, Joe, is enough to send her to the toilet (nervous stomach). Yet the "Rays" are made of sterner stuff than that. It’ll be fine. So she’s been spending more time in front of the toilet than she has with her fiancé, no big deal. It’ll be fine.
What’s not so fine is her wedding planner, Tabitha Jones, changing everything at the last minute. Everything. And before she can come to grips with it, Katie witnesses Tabitha’s murder. Chased into the recesses of Tabitha’s new home/office, Katie is locked in a room with a stranger…
He really didn’t want to attend this meeting; something about her brides being killed. But Tabitha was insistent and while she might be a kook, her claim does bear checking into. Ex-cop and current P.I., Carl Hades is too late. Tabitha is lying dead and he’s locked in a room with a sexy stranger named Katie Ray. The attraction is hot and instantaneous.
Once they’re freed, however, the danger continues to follow them. The skeletons of two dead brides’ surface leading Carl to believe Katie is in danger. While keeping a close eye on her they both find themselves in another type of danger all together. Emotionally and sexually. They each think they want different things from each other, but is that the past talking? Unless they do some soul searching, and at this point it doesn’t seem too likely, they’re going to lose each other.
Christie Craig appears to be very proficient at writing characters that are internally scarred yet externally hot, a story that twines emotions and feelings with sizzle and steam, all wrapped around bits of humor.
I must note that the frequent use of one word did leave me a bit disillusioned with the characters/story at times. While Katie and/or Carl may have thought the situation(s) to be f-word worthy, many readers may not.
Even with that being my opinion, Weddings Can Be Murder combines passionate and intense characters with a plot that’s well-balanced and fast-moving. It’s edgy and fun.
Connie
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