Presley Parker is praying that her party planning business,
Killer Parties, has potential promise.
The mayor of San Francisco's office has tapped her to plan
the mayor's "surprise" wedding, which is being touted as
the event of the year. The location -- Alcatraz Island. The
theme -- come as your favorite criminal or crime solver.
But before the "I do's" can be said, the bride bolts, and
Presley's big party deflates like one of the many festive
balloons hung from the prison cells.
When the runaway bride washes up on the beach of Treasure
Island, near Presley's condo, the police become interested.
When Presley's rival party planner Andrea Sax turns up dead
on her way to Treasure Island, Presley becomes a person of
interest and has to start hustling to clear her name.
Penny Warner serves up light-hearted cozy mystery with her
series debut HOW TO HOST A KILLER PARTY: A Party Planning
Mystery. Her heroine, Presley Parker, is a former
psychology professor who, after being down-sized from her
position, has had her life turned upside down. Her mother
was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Presley has had to move to
cheaper housing, and her future prospects seem dim. So she
decides to take a page from her former society maven
mother's handbook, "How To Host A Killer Party," and become
a party planner. She recruits her neighbors to help her out
with events, and this crew of eccentric personalities band
together to help Presley prove her innocence after the
prison party fiasco.
Presley's love interest, crime scene cleaner/private
investigator Brad Matthews is an intelligent, thoughtful
hero for the hapless Presley, and in a story that has as
many twists and turns as Lombard Street, a sturdy hero
comes in handy.
With a promising progression of peculiar plots, and a
plethora of party planning pointers, HOW TO HOST A KILLER
PARTY looks to be a pleasant prospect for cozy mystery
lovers.
Presley Parker was just happy to get her party planning
business off the ground. Now she's gotten the gig of the
year, planning Mayor Davin Green's sumptuous "surprise"
wedding for his socialite fiancée, to be held on Alcatraz.
But when the bride is found floating in the bay
and the original party planner is found murdered, Presley
becomes the prime suspect. If the attractive crime scene
cleaner, Brad Matthews, doesn't help her tidy her
reputation, she'll be exchanging her formal wear for
prison stripes...
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