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Title: May the Best Man Die by DEBORAH DONNELLY ISBN: 0-440-24129-4 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It Only Gets Better....
Comment: Deborah Donnelly has a great series with her sleuth/wedding planner - Carnegie Kincaid. The plot/subplots are great and her wedding and party planning ideas are pretty good as well.
I would not have missed reading about the Christmas wedding for anything. The "Killer B's" were great. I am going to miss them and hope that somehow they'll be included in the next book if only slightly. (Kind of how the southern Sheriff always managed to appear SOMEWHERE in the James Bond movies.)
This is not a "gruesome" murder series. It is a joy to find another great read.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Vastly Improving Series
Comment: I had almost quit reading this series after the first book which I did not particularly like, but decided to continue with the other two books that were available and now that I have read the third book, May The Best Man Die, I'm glad that I did. This book I believe is a great improvement over the first two books.
Veiled Threats: Carnegie Kincaid is a wedding planner who seems to have a murder along with each of her events. I would think clients would be reluctant to continue coming to her. I knew who the killer was almost from the beginning of the book and the plot was so convoluted I wished everyone had been killed by the end.
Died To Match: The second book was a slight improvement in that the mystery was much more interesting, but was ruined by what I thought a not very well thought out killer. Even when the book was over, I didn't believe who the killer was.
I wasn't sure I wanted to tackle the third book, but it turned out to be very good. The mystery was interesting, the killer was a complete surprise but fitted in perfectly with the storyline. I love the relationship between Carnegie and Aaron her on again / off again reporter boyfriend. She has some great supporting people, Boris the florist, Her best friend Lily and the hilarious Buckmeister family, whose first appeared in Died to Match and are still planning their daughter's Christmas wedding in this book. The plans for this wedding gives new meaning to the word tacky.
Even though I didn't find the first two books to be very good, I think it's important to start with them, because they do give you a real feel of the characters, their backgrounds and explanations as to why they are doing certains things in later books.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Well Planned, Well Catered Read
Comment: In this, her third mystery, Deborah Donnelly only
continues to make her heroine and hero's more appealing, her mystery more difficult to solve and the background information
as frothy as whipped cream in appearance and solid as brick in weight.
Carnegie is a wedding planner beset with boyfri woes, financial woes and demanding clients. Forced to cater a bachelor party
briefly mistaken for a stripper and finding out her
former boyfri is on the premises, Carnegie leaves in a huff only to note that her rental looks(with a bit of binocular assistance) into the party area. Noting a fight between two of the guests she later learns that one of the fighters is dead,
From running around planning weddings to running away from the
killer is a leap that Donnelly has Carnegie take easily, believably and us right along with her. Her primary characters are appealing BUT what is intriguing is that her secondary cast of characters also have such appeal that we wonder and worry
about them as well. Not a long book or an especially heavy one-
May The Best Man Die goes down like a particularly
fine wedding cake that has been strongly laced with
a first class brandy. Yummy.
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Title: Died to Match by Deborah Donnelly ISBN: 0440237041 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Veiled Threats by Deborah Donnelly ISBN: 0440237033 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 02 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Alpine for You : A Passport to Peril Mystery by Maddy Hunter ISBN: 0743458117 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Top O' the Mournin' : A Passport to Peril Mystery by Maddy Hunter ISBN: 0743458125 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Murder of a Barbie and Ken by Denise Swanson ISBN: 0451210727 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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