From New York Times best-selling author Elin Hilderbrand, comes a novel about the many ways family can fill our lives with love…if they don’t kill us first.
It’s wedding season on Nantucket. The beautiful island is overrun with summer people – an annual source of aggravation for year-round residents. And that’s not the only tension brewing offshore. When one lavish wedding ends in disaster before it can even begin – with the bride-to-be discovered dead in Nantucket Harbor just hours before the ceremony – everyone in the wedding party is suddenly a suspect. As Chief of Police Ed Kapenash digs into the best man, the maid of honor, the groom’s famous mystery novelist mother, and even a member of his own family, the chief discovers that every wedding is a minefield – and no couple is perfect.
Featuring beloved characters from The Castaways and A Summer Affair, The Perfect Couple proves once again that Elin Hilderbrand is the queen of the summer beach book.
A Perfect Novel The Perfect Couple is all the things I have liked best about Ms. Hilderbrand’s books, and it is very like the early novels that got me hooked! The description of Nantucket is vivid and brings me back to my visits there. The privilege of the inhabitants, the understated wealth, the atmosphere are all perfect. On an island where magical weddings happen as routine, the one of Benji and Celeste is orchestrated to the smallest detail. Greer and Tag are the hosts for the nuptials at their…
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, or crikey, this wedding party sure had a lot to hide! Upon reading the book blurb for this one, I knew I just had to pre-order it – a beautiful island wedding where the guests are all staying at the same location, and the maid of honour is found dead – sold! And did it live up to my expectations – yes, yes, yes! I knew going in that it was going to be tamer than my usual crime read, leaning more towards contemporary drama, which it was, but I have to say it was a nice change of pace for me, and I really enjoyed it. The mystery plot, which I…
In Most of “The Perfect Couple” I WISH My Own Writing Was Half this Good. Best Mystery You’ll Read this Summer… Think I’ll lead off this review with a quote explaining what one man mused to be a key difference between men and women:Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance – Oscar WildeDemakis, Joseph. The Ultimate Book of Quotations (p. 326). Unknown. Kindle Edition.BLUSH FACTOR No worries here. Other than the term rhyming with dam, I found no obscenities of any sort, even though there are references to affairs and romance,…