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Kelsey McKenna Destination Wedding Mystery series

Review: Terror in Taffeta by Marla Cooper

By Katherine Tomlinson

April 11, 2017

Terror in Taffeta by Marla Cooper is the 1st book in the Kelsey McKenna Destination Wedding Mystery series, nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. I was invited to a destination wedding a few years ago—the actual ceremony took place in a picturesque, centuries-old church in a charming French fishing village. It looked…

Review: Dying on the Vine by Marla Cooper

By Janet Webb

April 8, 2017

Dying on the Vine by Marla Cooper is the 2nd book in the Kelsey McKenna Destination Wedding Mysteries series. Take a visual tour of Dying on the Vine with GIFnotes! Murder and matrimony are the order of the day for Northern California wedding planner Kelsey McKenna. After Terror in Taffeta, Kelsey might be excused for hoping…

Dying on the Vine: New Excerpt

By Marla Cooper

March 29, 2017

Dying on the Vine by Marla Cooper is the 2nd book in the Kelsey McKenna Destination Wedding Mysteries series (available April 4, 2017). When wedding planner Kelsey McKenna goes to the Wine Country Wedding Faire, the last thing she expects to do is take on new clients. After all, she’s just there to help out her…

Wedding Cozies and Crime Fiction Couples

By Marla Cooper

March 27, 2017

Love is in the air this spring with new wedding cozies, so we asked authors Maggie McConnon and Marla Cooper to share which crime fiction couple they would want to work for. Read their responses below and sign in and comment at the bottom for a chance to win a copy of Bel of the…

“Vine Country” Cocktail

By Adam Wagner

March 24, 2017

What happens when your nice vacation to Wine Country is interrupted by murder? Add bourbon to your wine… And that's exactly what we do with this week's Pick Your Poison—where we create a cocktail inspired by a recently published mystery, thriller, or crime novel—the “Vine Country” cocktail, inspired by Marla Cooper's 2nd Kelsey McKenna Destination Wedding…

Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List: April, 2017

By Crime HQ

March 15, 2017

Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we welcomed in spring (or we thought we would … ahem, snow storm) with March's releases; this month, we're hoping for warmer weather with April releases! Let us know in the comments how you like…

Dying on the Vine by Marla Cooper: A Visual Guide

By Adam Wagner

February 8, 2017

GIFnotes: Giving you the basic plot summary of an upcoming book with the help of the Graphics Interchange Format. This week, a rival wedding planner turns up dead, and Kelsey McKenna must investigate to clear her name! Take a visual tour of Marla Cooper's 2nd Kelsey McKenna Destination Wedding Mystery, Dying on the Vine, with GIFnotes!

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