Review: Entertaining Mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 10, 2011
Although quite predictable Wedding Bell Blues is an entertaining and engaging mystery. Readers who enjoy a bit of romance will also enjoy this book.  Jessica's sister Maryanne is getting married and driving her crazy with the wedding plans. Jessica has been unlucky in love...secretly pining for an old flame Colton. In an effort to help her family with the wedding she agrees to run errands, stopping at a local liquor store. Ignoring her instincts, she enters the store and disrupts a robbery in progress.  Injured, she wakes up to a police investigation run by her past love Colton...who has never gotten over Jessica either. In order prevent spoiling the book let me just say that circumstances cause them to work together to solve more than just a liquor store robbery gone wrong, meanwhile resolving their feelings for each other and helping the the wedding go successful.I really enjoyed this book. Ferguson writes very well, giving us great character development and enough twists and turns in the story to keep it engaging even though there was an obvious direction as to who the culprit was going to be.  A couple of things that kept it from being a five star: I found Jessica over the top bitchy at times and had to try a put myself in her shoes to try to  justify it but sometimes I was just too put off by her childishness.  Also the author rehashed multiple times that everyone is scared of Jessica's mother, that her mother is constantly trying to marry off her daughters, and that Colton had done Jessica wrong... I got it the first ten times...we could have moved on.Despite some of the obvious  repetition...I would definitely read more of Ferguson's work...she shows great promise as a mystery/romance writer, her writing style is appealing, and gives the right amount of dialog and descriptive prose. I recommend it.