Andy Kendricks doesn't want to attend a society wedding,
but
her mother drags her along. The
next thing she knows, Andy is roped into being a
bridesmaid. Things get even worse when she
learns the wedding planner is Olivia LaBelle.
Olivia made Andy's life a living hell in prep school.
Andy arrives at Olivia's office to find her dead
with Millicent Draper, a cake maker kneeling at her side
with the murder weapon in her hand. Andy has known Millie
for years and firmly believes her protestations of
innocence. The police are not so convinced.
Meanwhile, Dallas is
buzzing with the gossip. Andy sets out to answer some
questions about who wanted Olivia dead despite Andy's
fiancé's
objections.
Knowing her mother, Cissy, has the contacts she needs, Andy
tells her mother she is planning her marriage to Brian
for October. Cissy takes immediate action, and Andy is
walking a narrow line between her investigation and
preventing the wedding from becoming a disaster.
Susan McBride writes an entertaining story with some
fascinating characters. SAY YES TO THE DEATH is the sixth
book in the Debutante Dropout Mysteries. The
continuing
conflict between Andy and her mother, Cissy, gives the
reader a fascinating glimpse into a high society life.
This story especially highlights the differences between
the middle class and the very rich in lifestyle and
resources at their command. There is an interesting twist
in SAY YES TO
THE DEATH, and Ms. McBride keeps
the reader invested in the story as Andy seeks a killer.
Someone old, someone cruel
Debutante dropout Andrea Kendricks is beyond done with big
hair, big gowns, and big egos—so being dragged to a
high-society Texas wedding by her socialite mama, Cissy,
gives her a bad case of déjà vu. As does running into her
old prep-school bully, Olivia La Belle, the wedding planner,
who's graduated to berating people for a living on her
reality TV show. But for all the times Andy wished her dead,
nobody deserves Olivia's fate: lying in a pool of blood, a
cake knife in her throat—but did the angry baker do it?
Millicent Draper, the grandmotherly owner of Millie's Cakes,
swears she's innocent, and Andy believes her. Unfortunately,
the cops don't. Though Andy's fiancé, lawyer Brian Malone,
is handling Millie's case, she's determined to spring Millie
herself. But where to start? "La Belle from Hell" had
enemies galore. Good thing Andy has a BFF who's a reporter—
and a blue-blood mother who likes to pull strings.
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