Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37225 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Tinker's Cove, Maine, is the cozily evoked setting of Meier's lighthearted Lucy Stone novels, which are usually set around holidays or significant life events. Here a harried Lucy is trying to juggle children, husband and a full-time job when her best friend, Sue Finch, asks for help in planning the wedding of Sue's mother, Sidra, and Internet millionaire Ron Davitz. Lucy agrees to let the ceremony take place in her backyard gazebo. When the groom and his social-climbing mother arrive on a large yacht, tempers start flaring among the townspeople. Local fishermen are being displaced from their moorings in the harbor to make way for summer visitors in an attempt to raise much-needed revenues for the town. Davitz proves to be a singularly graceless, stereotypical computer nerd, but when he's found floating dead in the water, suspicion quickly focuses on an old flame of the bride. Lucy once more finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation, and at first she fears that Sue, or Sue's temperamental husband, might have done something drastic to get rid of a potential father-in-law he despised. In a leisurely paced investigation, Lucy perseveres through various irritations to dig up the truth. Despite the obvious pall cast by the murder of the groom, Meier manages to pull off a happy ending, replete with a charming wedding in which her fans will rejoice.

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From Booklist
On a summer morning, reporter Lucy Stone learns that her friend Sue's daughter will marry a dot-com millionaire at Sue's Maine home. Then the prospective in-laws appear and try to take over the wedding, the groom drowns, and Sue finds herself the leading suspect. Lucy rushes to the rescue. In this eighth Lucy Stone mystery, Meier takes well-worn plot elements-- small-town tensions, in-law troubles--and buffs them into a fresh yarn. Characters and their interactions are realistic and dryly humorous, the Maine coast provides an evocative backdrop, and the short course on dot-com business is enlightening on its own and seamlessly incorporated into the story. An amiable cozy for fans of the late Anne George. John Rowen
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Customer Reviews

Enjoyable reading
The whole Lucy Stone series is very enjoyable reading. Lucy is a very regular person with family issues that could apply to alot of people. Sometimes I wish she could have a nicer time of things, but then the story wouldn't be the same. The mysteries she solves are not huge conundrums, but I like to get an idea of who the killer might be before the last page sometimes! Not every mystery book needs to be the end-all of stories--just fun and easy is nice, too. And her series is definitely that. If you are looking for deep darkness, this is not it. But if you want a likable character and easy flowing story, here you go.

Where's the mystery?
The "mystery" in this novel takes up about five pages...the rest is a boring account of daily goings'-on in Tinker's Cover...Lucy is a moron, her husband is a grumbling troglodyte, her kids are selfish punks, and her friends are rather hurtful. Why is this series so successful?

in the "get rid" of box not to be passed to anyone I like.
The idea seems good. HOWEVER... The ideas behind the characters seems a tad stereotyped and then it gets worse. I admit it is the first book I have read of Leslie Meier and it might be the last. The characters never get to the point where I care about them. Lucy seems scatterbrained and totally inept at anything. Solve a murder? More like blunder into the answer. By page 79 I personally was hoping she would get wacked not Ron. Her husband the depressed caveman wanders around complaining things aren't like they use to be and the kids are being kids... a bit boring but kids. Cosy? Homey? Country? not in the least however it gets five stars for stereotyping. Not every housewife turned working woman is inept.

I didn't manage one once of caring for any of the characters because they never came to life. I was left wondering "WHY?" Why are you telling me this and do I care most of the time and sadly the answer was no. A book best thrown aside forcefully.