A Wedding Date with Death - Maeve Haran

 Something old, something new, something borrowed… someone dead?!

When Sadie Sutton swapped four walls for the four wheels of her trusty orange VW campervan, she didn’t realise that it would come with a new career as a super sleuth! But when a wedding at local beauty spot Winching Priory Hotel is halted because the father of the groom has been found fatally poisoned, Sadie drops everything to take on her next case!

As the wedding grinds to a halt, Sadie soon learns that the victim, gifted local artist Benedict Lawrence, also had a talent for making enemies, from the snooty hotel owners to his long-suffering ex-wife. With an ever-growing list of possible suspects, Sadie is stumped. Until she finds a crumpled, threatening note sent to Benedict hours before he died.

The note leads Sadie deep into Benedict’s past, to a secret love affair, a bitter feud and a long-buried grudge. And when she finds a faded newspaper article about him and his artist friends in their youth, she’s stunned at who else she recognises in the photo…

With secrets and lies at every turn, Sadie knows no guests are safe. Can she crack the case before the nearly wed become newly dead?

My Review

A Wedding Date with Death is the second book in the campervan detective series. This time Sadie and her gang of campervan-living detectives find themselves investigating the murder of a famous artist, who may have been popular for his art, but doesn't seem to be popular in person. 

I do enjoy the way in this series we have a whole cast of people who get involved in solving the mystery, each bringing their own skills. Being the second book, I'm starting to get my head around who is who, as much as I like having a few people involved, it was confusing at first as to who was who.

This was an entertaining read (always feels funny to say about a murder story) and one that kept me turning the pages until the end.