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THE KILLER WEDDING
By: Sophie Tuke
A Hilarious Cosy British Wedding Rom Com
Independently Published
March 2026
On Sale: March 6, 2026
265 pages
ISBN: B0GRMTLW11
EAN: 9798250994651
Kindle: B0GRMTLW11
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Humor | Thriller
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed... Something Lethal.
Discover the sharpest, most unapologetically British spy comedy of the year. Think Wodehouse meets le Carré, served with vintage champagne and a side of attempted murder.
Henry Vaughn has a job title designed to make people change the subject: ‘administrative liaison in cross-departmental risk assessment’ at Whitehall. He shares an office with eleven colleagues and a microwave featuring a passive-aggressive note about fish. But Henry’s real, unglamorous vocation is keeping his best friend, James Ashworth-Pemberton, alive.
James is the "golden retriever" of the English aristocracy: wealthy, generous, and catastrophically trusting. He is a man who "drives in ski boots," "once spent four hours helping a lost tourist," and is fundamentally incapable of recognizing a death threat. So, when James proposes to Anastasia Kovalenko; a brilliant tech entrepreneur with watchful eyes and a backstory full of gaps, Henry starts watching.
He is right to watch. But he is wrong about what he is watching for.
Anastasia isn’t a gold-digger. She is a former Ukrainian intelligence operative, recruited at sixteen, who walked away from her past during the chaos of war to build a legitimate life in London. But that past has followed her to the Cotswolds in the shape of Viktor Morozov: her "ex-handler" posing as her long-lost brother, who intends to murder the groom during the wedding weekend to seize the family fortune.
What follows at Hartington Hall; a honey-coloured Georgian pile where the bunting droops like the moustache of a defeated general, is a catastrophic wedding day where James’s life is saved repeatedly by sheer, ridiculous accident: - A dangerously steaming hot tub full of stolen lobsters and chunks of ice.
- A poisoning blocked by a high-society row over ketchup snobbery.
- An assassination drone strike disintegrated by a "surprise" fireworks display.
- A lethal cake-cutting parried by an antique ceremonial sword used since the Napoleonic Wars.
The groom never realizes he was in danger. The bride is super smart and came to her own wedding with a stiletto knife strapped to her blue silk garter.
Narrated by Henry; dry, self-deprecating and devastatingly funny: THE KILLER WEDDING is a high-energy crossover between comic fiction, cosy mystery and spy thriller. It is the perfect read for fans of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club, Mick Herron’s Slow Horses and the high-society satire of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out.
Why readers are loving The Killer Wedding: - The Voice: Henry Vaughn is the narrator you'll want chronicling everything from your morning commute to your own wedding.
- The Setting: A crumbling Cotswolds estate where the secrets are as vintage as the champagne.
- The Ensemble Cast: From Elizabeth, the formidable mother with a hidden prenup, to Granny Cordelia, who asks about security perimeters while sipping samogon from old friends in Moscow.
- The Chaos: A squad of useless ushers, a flamboyant wedding planner with seventeen shades of white and a DJ who worked Glastonbury until dawn.
- The Action: From booby-trapped hot air balloons to elite cyber-warfare, the stakes never let up.
"A British Spy Comedy at its finest."
Grab your copy today and join the most eventful wedding of the season!
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