Author: Kate Collins
Genre: Mystery
Mass Market Paperback; Digital Book
ISBN #: 9781496724359\/
Kensington Publishing
336 Pages
$6.99; $6.64 Amazon
December 1, 2020
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The entire family has been put to work when a big fat Greek wedding rehearsal is booked at the Parthenon. All hands are needed for rolling grape leaves, layering moussaka, and keeping the bride calm. But then the groom goes MIA and there's far more to worry about than just whether Yiayia's lemon rice soup has gone cold.
No matter how tangy the tzatziki, everyone's appetite is ruined when the groom is found dead, a pair of scissors planted in his back. When the bride accuses Athena's sister Selene, a hairstylist, of seducing and stabbing her fiancé, it's all-out war -- and it's up to Athena to dig up the dirt on the suspects and nip these suspicions in the bud...
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Athena's family owns a garden center and a restaurant called the Parthenon. When her hairstylist sister Selene is asked to be a bridesmaid for her friend Mandy, she agrees. The rehearsal dinner is at the restaurant, and everyone is waiting for Brady, the groom, to show up. But he never does. And when Mandy's brother goes looking for him, they find that Brady has been murdered. But things get worse when the police discover Selene's scissors in his back, and she can't give a solid alibi, they arrest her for the murder. Now Athena and her friend Case are determined to find evidence to get Selene off the hook. But between dodging Mama's attempts to get Athena married, and a rich woman's attempts to get Case, things aren't going to be as easy as Athena wants. She just hopes she can find the evidence before Selene is formally charged and brought to trial...
This is the second book in the series and I did like it a bit better than the first. Unfortunately, I really don't like Athena's mama. She's a nag, and even with a daughter in jail for a murder she didn't commit, she's still trying to get Athena married off. How much sense does that make? She sets her up on blind dates knowing Athena doesn't want anything to do with it. I also don't care for the 'evil nemesis' in the form of Lila; I really abhor those in books and wish she'd disappear.
While I thought the plot was done well, and the writing was very good, there were parts that were slow-going, and I just didn't understand Mitchell's obsession about Mandy. It was almost unhealthy, if you know what I mean.
But other than this, the plot flowed and kept me interested in the book and I did like the interactions between Athena and her father. They are very close, and it shows. I also liked the fact that her relationship with Case is moving forward.
The way Athena and Case went about asking questions was never invasive, and I liked that they shared the information with police officer Bob McGuire. It's always nice to have a police officer who's helpful and not nasty to you.
In the end, I did enjoy how everything was resolved; when the murderer is discovered, it was both sad and yet done in such a way that you couldn't hate the killer. I felt everything was done nicely while giving us a touch of what is going to happen in the next book. Recommended.
More on Kate Collins's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/kate-collins/
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