Customer Reviews

Weddings Are Murder

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1 star:		(4)

 

 

Susan's Henshaw's daughter is getting married and, as usual, everything that could go wrong does. However, a missing wedding gown is nothing compared to the dead body which Susan has found. If you can swallow the premise that Susan wouldn't report the murder to the police because she doesn't want to spoil her daughter's wedding day, then you should enjoy this cozy. Acually this book is one of the better ones of the series and contains amusing characters and situations, along with plenty of red herrings and a satisfying conclusion.

I have enjoyed all of the Susan Henshaw mysteries and was very disappointed in this one. No self-respecting mother in the world would allow her daughter to abuse her this way. I was so annoyed with Chrissy's behavior, I didn't even finish the book! If this is the only one you have read, please, please try one of the other ones, they are much, much better!

This is the 4th book I've read of the Susan Henshaw suburban housewife "sleuth" series and with each book I find myself shaking my head in disbelief; but this one, so far, takes the cake. What mother of the bride would be running the streets at two in the morning the night before her daughter gets married trying to track down a murderer, leaving dog "poop" and "pee" on the kitchen floor knowing she is to host a large brunch early the next morning. When the next morning comes she never sets foot in the kitchen to see if the mess is still there but goes off on another wild goose chase. She always uses her best friend Kathleen who was a police officer before she quit and got married as a errand and delivery person more than what she is, a trained professional. As a trained professional Kathleen should be solving the crime(s) and Susan should be assisting her, not the other way around. All the books I have read so far are just not believable but this one ...forget it, I can not recommend it, it seems more like a fantasy than a mystery.

I enjoyed this book. It was a light mystery with a lot of fun thrown in via the dissapearing body, the vanishing wedding dress and the other problems that arise from having a murder and a wedding.

The author did a good job of picturing the tense times of a wedding. All that was lacking was the normal night before the wedding fight between groom and bride.

I read the other reviews and I disagree in that I didn't find the main character, Susan, to be extremely self centered. Rather I found her to be a normal, flawed mother who was working hard to make the best wedding she could for her daughter. I thought her reaction to finding the dead body and her solutions to hiding the dead body funny.

The book was fun and enjoyable. It was a light mystery that didn't have a lot of gore. I will read others by this author.

Susan is trying to give her daughter the perfect wedding. In addition to the usual stress, her daughter's dress has not arrived from Italy and her future son in law's parents have invited all of their former commune buddies to a rehearsal dinner intended only for the family. The usual stresses of family only add to the fun. When the dress finally arrives, Susan goes to pick it up only to find the body of a strange woman with a wedding invitation inside the otherwise empty box. How can she give the perfect wedding in a crime scene?

This is one of Ms. Wolzien's better efforts. Her grasp of the details of a large wedding and descriptions of the crazy commune members are wonderful. I really enjoyed the many intertwined plotlines, and the crazy characters really kept me laughing.

I have to agree with some of the other reviewers who say Susan is changing. I attribute some of her scatterbrained behavior in this book to mother-of-the-bride nerves, but she's actually been less flighty in earlier books during events that were far more traumatic than this (The 40th Birthday Body, for example). But let's be honest--she's a Baby Boomer and Boomers are portrayed in our culture as self-absorbed and pre-occupied with not aging. So Susan's a little flawed. I do hope that in future stories, she'll get some of her true detective sense back, and start enjoying this stage of life she's entering as the children are growing up and leaving home.

I think I would have enjoyed this book more if Susan Henshaw were a little more appealing. Is it me, or is she the most self-centered creature on the face of the earth? Or maybe she's supposed to be one of those people you love to hate, and I'm missing something. I keep looking for her to redeem herself with either some razor-sharp wit or deep insight, but I'm still waiting. Disappointing book.

Susan Henshaw was once a spunky, intelligent heroine. This book continues her unfortunate metamorphosis into a flighty, self-absorbed, uninteresting person who displays uncommonly bad judgement at key points in the novel--simply to keep the plot going. This confirms my earlier resolve to stop reading Wolzien. A real shame, given how enjoyable her earlier works were.

this book is rotten

This is truly a delightful book. Anyone who has gone through a wedding can understand the stress, add a disappering body and only Susan Henshaw can pull it off.