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REVIEW: Wedding Bell Blues by Charlotte Douglas

Dear Ms Douglas,

When I picked up a copy of “Wedding Bell Blues,” I didn’t realize that it is the fourth book in your Maggie Skerritt mystery series. I thought briefly about trying to track down the other three books since I prefer to read a series in order but realized that I probably wouldn’t be able to in the near future. I also wanted to see how well it stood alone. The answer is that it does fine on its own but now that I know the answers to some of the past mysteries that Maggie solved in earlier books, it makes me a little reluctant to bother reading them.

Maggie Skerritt’s new PI business pays her bills and also allows her to keep doing what she not only loves but what is in her blood: namely, solving mysteries. After 23 years as a police officer, it’s something she craves. It’s her luck to be able to feed her need while working with the man she loves, fellow former officer Bill Malcolm. If Maggie could only get her society mother and sister to leave her alone about their upcoming wedding instead of planning a “wedding of the …