All I wanted was for my wedding to be drama-free. Was that too much to ask for? Apparently so, because you can’t get much more dramatic than murder.

Look, as the baby of the family, I know I can be a little spoiled sometimes, but I’m really just a product of my environment. Is it my fault that ever since my big sister Audrey nearly let me drown when I was two years old she’s had a crippling fear of water and an outsized sense of responsibility for my happiness?

As my maid of honor, her job is to make sure my fiancée Lacey and I get hitched without a hitch, and sometimes that means having to solve not one but two untimely deaths. I’ve waited a long time—including several months while Lacey was in lady jail for crimes committed under duress—for this special day and I don’t want to wait a moment longer.

Yes, I’m devastated that a member of our bridal party was found bludgeoned on the Chattertowne Golf and Country Club course following our rehearsal dinner. Yes, I understand that it may be in poor taste to continue with the ceremony in light of the circumstances, and that the paparazzi are publicizing (and criticizing) my every move because of my very famous guests, Chattertowne’s own celebrity Onyx Carpenter and her rock star husband Meacham Fields.

Still, I just want to be married to my best friend and the love of my life. Finally.

Is it a little obnoxious or tacky that my wedding is scheduled takes place minutes after the end of the Masters Golf Tournament (when the infamous green jacket is awarded) and features my bridesmaids in varying shades of green (not toxic waste green, as Audrey claims)? Maybe. But Lacey loves golf, and she’s been teaching me to play. I’m terrible, and I’m a slow learner, but I love spending that time with her. You know what they say: the couple who bogies together become old fogeys together…or something like that.

I never imagined that having a golf-themed wedding would become such an ordeal, that a promising athlete might get cut down just as their star began to shine, or that the golf pro might be arrested for murder. I also didn’t foresee a celebrity scandal, a devastating storm, or the revelations of enough secrets to fill the Chattertowne Reservoir, all threatening to keep this wedding from happening.

Not on Audrey’s watch, though. With the help of the handsome police chief and the equally handsome former city manager, there’s no way my sister would let the wedding fall apart. Her complicated love life, well, that’s another story.

But if she can connect all the dots, and chain all the links (link all the chains?) I might just make it down the aisle after all.

Secrets Will Link – A Chattertowne Mystery, Book 3
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release: August 2025
Format: Print, Digital
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Local investigative reporter Audrey O’Connell already has her hands full with Maid of Honor duties for her sister’s golf-themed wedding at the Chattertowne Country Club. Not to mention, the gossip mill is abuzz with news about Chattertowne’s own celebrity influencer Onyx Carpenter, who is rumored to be bringing her rockstar husband Meacham Fields to the nuptials as her plus one.

But when Onyx’s former high school flame Wiley Barrett is accused of killing one of his golf students in a coverup the day after her heralded homecoming, she insists he’s innocent and begs Audrey to help exonerate him…much to her husband’s dismay. When Wiley is found dead in a bunker on the sixteenth fairway following an argument with Meacham at the rehearsal dinner, the singer is the prime suspect.

With less than 48 hours before the ceremony and her sister’s special day hanging in the balance, Audrey must find what links the two deaths while fending off the descending paparazzi.

About the author
When Kate B Jackson (K.B. Jackson) isn’t writing about Sasquatch, secrets, and murder, she enjoys unearthing family scandals under the guise of ancestry research. A 2-time Agatha Award winner, 3-time Anthony Award finalist, and 2-time Silver Falchion Award nominated author of mysteries for kids and grownups, she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her trophy husband and enjoys traveling with their four grown children. She writes the Sasquatch Hunters Middle Grade series, the Chattertowne Secrets mysteries, and the Cruising Sisters mysteries.