Caffeinated Reviewer | Garters, Ghosts, and Wedding Toasts by Angie Fox
1st Apr
Sophia Rose is here with a review of Garters, Ghosts, and Wedding Toasts by Angie Fox. Come see what she loved about this tale filled with suspense and fun.
Garters, Ghosts, and Wedding Toasts
by Angie Fox
Series: Southern Ghost Hunters #15
Genres: Paranormal
Source: Purchase
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When Verity Long agrees to be her sister’s maid of honor, she expects wedding cake and champagne—not a dead hostess, a cursed honeymoon suite, and a ghostly bride reliving her tragic final moments. With a killer on the loose, a ballroom full of restless spirits, and Frankie stirring up trouble with a rogue ghost hunter, Verity must race to uncover the truth before Melody’s dream wedding becomes her worst nightmare.
Sophia Rose’s Review
Verity’s sister is about to have her dream wedding at a historic Irish castle brought over stone by stone to settle in the next town over. Trouble is Melody’s wedding venue is haunted and grooms have a tendency to die messily off the honeymoon suite balcony. Verity’s got two days to get to the bottom of the ghost mystery while Frankie is off trying to heist the stolen Irish Crown Jewels. Angie Fox’s Southern Ghost Hunter series was my first foray into the paranormal cozy mystery genre and remains one of my favorite series even fifteen books into the series.
Garters, Ghosts, and Wedding Toasts has a standalone mystery, but the characters and relationships mean so much more when the series is read in order.
Verity, Ellis, Melody, Alec, and Frankie the ghost arrive at the Byrne Castle in nearby Jackson, TN for the pre-nuptial activities. Melody and Alex get the wedding Melody has always dreamed of for free because they agreed to try a new wedding venue and allow them to photo and video the entire wedding for their website and brochures. So, there will be photoshoots around the venue, catered meals, lovely suites, and fashionable wedding attire all provided by the venue staff and owners. It all seems too good to be true and is.Â
Two of Byrne Castle’s grooms have died fifty years apart off the same balcony and Alec is slated to use that room on the anniversary of both deaths. Verity goes into action and soon finds the Byrne family tie to the stolen Irish Crown Jewels, a ghost of a mobster trying to find its hidden location and a powerful ghost who might kill to stop the wedding. If that weren’t enough, it soon becomes obvious that someone in the here and now flesh also has it in for Melody and Alec’s nuptials, but who? There are several possibilities including the wedding planner, chef, maid, photographer, groundskeeper, and owners.Â
Frankie’s little help as he is distracted by the other gangsters haunting the place and the fascination of re-stealing the jewels. With Ellis’ steady help, Verity sifts through facts and narrowly avoids a ruthless killer’s determination to finish things off before the ‘I Do’.
Garters, Ghosts, and Wedding Toasts has a lively, frolicking feel that is often the case with Verity and Frankie’s detecting ventures with ghosts and human villains, but I loved the shivery spikes of suspense scattered throughout that built to a taut climax. There is a light denouement with a surprise finish teaser for the next book.
About Angie Fox
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Angie Fox writes sweet, fun, action-packed mysteries. Her characters are clever and fearless, but in real life, Angie is afraid of basements, bees, and going up stairs when it is dark behind her. Let’s face it. Angie wouldn’t last five minutes in one of her books.
Angie is best known for her SOUTHERN SPIRITSâ„¢ mysteries, and for her ACCIDENTAL DEMON SLAYER books.
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