Meredith Sutton has been trying to open a hotel and wedding
venue in the beautiful mountains of Vermont, but fate has
dogged her and the wedding guests now arriving are fighting
through snow. Greeting them, she sees some people from the
school days she left behind at the town limits. Including,
of course, the good-looking guy who never noticed her. Tom
Campbell hadn't been on the guest list, and now she's stuck
with her embarrassing crush for five days. Oh well, she'll
be busy.
THE BEST MAN TO TRUST is oneself in this country-house
murder story, as on the first night a girl is found dead
with a knife in her ribs, and all the guests and staff have
to suspect one another. The lights keep flickering, the
phone line is dead, the snow drifts higher.... The
characters have jobs including TV production, actress, real
estate sales, journalist; but they get down to examining
evidence and alibis and motives. And locking their
doors....
As the tale progresses the claustrophobic, distrustful
atmosphere is well created and past connections and deeds
are examined to see who might have had a motive. Meredith
has a bad marriage in her past, making her a very human
protagonist. Could Tom, the intended best man at the
wedding, be interested in her after all this time?
Devotees of isolated, country-house murders should pick up
this more modern version, THE BEST MAN TO TRUST, but I hope
next time Kerry Connor will let the characters explore the
beautiful countryside as well.
Black tie… Whiteout… Red-hot lust! Wedding planner Meredith Sutton has a lot riding on the next wedding at Sutton Hall. She needs everything to go perfectly to launch her start-up bridal business. And she's prepared for everything…except seeing her old college crush in the wedding party. But not even Tom Campbell's dreamy eyes and filled-out physique can throw Meredith off her game. A killer, on the other hand, might mess things up.… Trapped in the midst of the fiercest blizzard the isolated mountain town has ever seen, the guest list becomes smaller by the day. But it's Tom's searing kisses and scorching caresses that have Meredith wanting one last chance at love. Since they might not be alive once the storm breaks.…
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