The last person struggling writer and amateur PI Jaine Austen expected to hear on the other end of the line when she answered her phone was Patti Marshall, the former prom queen of Jaine's alma mater, Hermosa High. Jaine and Patti were never friends in school; in fact, the only comments Patti ever made to Jaine while they were in high school were said with biting sarcasm and a look that could peel paint, so Jaine is suspicious when Patti announces that she's getting married and that she absolutely must have Jaine write her wedding vows. Is it possible the leopard has changed its spots? Has Patti grown into a more kind-hearted woman? The answer, Jaine soon learns, is no.

What Patti has grown into is Bridezilla. The vows that she wants Jaine to write? She wants them to be an adaptation of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, only without the morbid ending. In Patti's version, which Jaine is expected to produce in only two days, the dialogue is supposed to sound like it came from Friends...or maybe Gray's Anatomy...or perhaps Seinfeld. As Jaine listens to Patti in horror, she desperately wants to turn down the job and leave Patti firmly in her past, but she's even more desperate to pay her bills, which have been threatening to swallow her coffee table. So, she reluctantly enslaves herself to Patti for the week to the tune of three thousand dollars.

Over the next few days, Jaine struggles through countless rewrites and Patti's hostile behavior, while simultaneously dodging the attentions of the best man, an obnoxious geek who stalked her in high school. But when the wedding day arrives, tragedy (or karma) arrives with it, and Bridezilla takes a fatal tumble from the balcony with the help of a loosened railing. There's no doubt that Patti was murdered, but the list of potential suspects is longer than the deceased bride's train. The police believe the groom's jealous ex-wife, Normalynne, is responsible, but Jaine just can't accept that sweet Normalynne is capable of murder. Jaine sets out to prove Normalynne's innocence, but finding the real murderer among Bridezilla's list of enemies is harder than she ever imagined. Who knew so many people were waiting in line to kill Bridezilla?

Laura Levine is a woman who knows how to deliver a punch line, and her delightful characters will keep you laughing from beginning to end! Anyone who has ever been owned by a cat will find a lot to love about Prozac, Jaine's overindulged feline, who is a consummate scene stealer, while Jaine is a terrific narrator; a thirty- something single woman who, despite her complaints about her extra weight and lack of exercise, seems pretty darn comfortable in her own skin. The fates continually conspire to put her in situations where mortification is inevitable, and yet she has a knack for picking herself back up and facing the next challenge with gusto, even if she has to hire a date and go without makeup to do it. And KILLING BRIDEZILLA isn't just about comedy. Oh no! The mystery is so cleverly woven into the plot, and the secondary characters are so brilliantly developed, that the only reason not to read this book in one sitting is because you'll never want it to end.