A Wedding to Die For

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A Wedding to Die For by Leann Sweeney

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


Found this in a library sale and that's where it's going to end up again. Abby Rose wasn't entirely awful but she's pretty damn annoying. She's a very wealthy young lady who's turned PI, specializing in finding birth parents for adoptees.

She was at the wedding reception for her client only to have the new bride's adoptive father to be killed. She's not really looking into that case but kinda is as she still tries to find the bride's real mom. Abby is almost obstructive to the actual detective mostly because a) the cops were 'mean' to her in book one I guess b) she's jealous of her cop boyfriend's former relationship to this detective (because that's a mature way to treat a homicide case).

I was more than ready to bail when she uses her wealth to book a one day flight to Jamaica (and all the borderline racist stereotypes that populate her Kingston, yikes) and once she's there she decides breaking and entering is fine for her to do but she doesn't even really know how DNA works (or how to harvest it. OMG) and the silliness of how SLOW Jamaican computers are because they're so poor, oh those slow year 2000 computers are (okay this was pubbed in 2005 so we're talking it was written 2003-2004 and we're bashing on three year old computers?!?)

Even Abby using the Yellow Rose name bugged me because yeah she's in Texas and her last name was Rose but the Yellow here refers to an old term for biracial people and the Yellow Rose was a real biracial woman who didn't need lily white here usurping her name to be cutesy. I won't be looking for more of this series.



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