Title: A Pickled Wedding
Author: Ember Mae
Date: 2021
Publisher: E.B. Business Writing Service
Quote: "[Y]ou're marrying Kourtney, so I have no idea how it's possible for you to be so relaxed."
This is the short comedy prequel to the murder mystery. In Pickled Wedding, shoe designer Veronica Swift is opening her boutique. Her brother Teddy refuses to admit that he's about to marry a horrorcow. Kourtney has to rub her fundamental awfulness into every other character's face, by ones, and finally rub it into Teddy's face that she's cheating on him, to get him to dump her. Teddy and Roni are so nice that, even when Teddy agrees with everyone else that they want Kourtney to go away, they'll still be surprised when in the next volume she's found dead, and they'll have to prove they didn't do it by finding out who did.
Meanwhile, the "mystery" of who stole the shoes Kourtney "stole" from Roni, first, then accused Roni of stealing from her, is a short and simple story.
The way Teddy, Roni, and friends celebrate Teddy's break-up involves getting drunk and destroying some property. This is not the kind of Christmas story that works as a Sunday School book, although snow, carols, Grinch movies, gifts, cocoa, and bright red and green shoes are mentioned frequently. If you like to laugh at characters behaving badly, you will enjoy this book, probably enough to buy it if you missed the free offer. And you'll buy the other shoe-related mysteries, too, because these characters are funny even when they're behaving well.
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