The Wedding Plot by Paula Munier

Series Name: Mercy Carr Mystery #4
Genre: Traditional
Release: July 19, 2022

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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Dru’s Short Musing:
What would a wedding be without the discovery of a body here and there? If you are Mercy Carr, you can depend on that happening.

I love this series. The author continues to keep me enthralled in this well-written and fast-paced drama that quickly became a page-turner as I had to know how this was going to end. The mystery was three-fold, where is the missing spa director, who is behind the murder, and will this wedding happen? With Grace, Mercy’s mother, planning this wedding, it’s up to Mercy to figure it all out. I enjoyed the complexity and the family dynamics as it was the backbone in what was going on with the situation at the lodge. Someone wants a few in the wedding party dead and when Mercy is harmed, the stakes are high to apprehend this person. There were plenty of suspects, peppered with a few red herrings to keep me in the game and when the killer’s identity was revealed, I didn’t see that one coming. Good job, good job. And that ending. . . This is one of the best books in this fantastic series and I do hope there is a fifth book coming.

FTC Full Disclosure – I received a digital ARC of this book from the publisher via NetGalley.