As Zoe Hayes prepares for her wedding to Detective Nick Stiles, the festivities are threatened when a jogger turns up dead on her back patio, a coworker from the Psychiatric Institute is run down, her wedding planner is attacked, and she uncovers evidence that at least one of her future in-laws is not who he seems to be. By the author of The Nanny Murders. 10,000 first printing. - (Baker & Taylor)As Zoe Hayes prepares for her wedding to Detective Nick Stiles, the festivities are threatened when a jogger turns up dead on her back patio and she uncovers evidence that at least one of her future in-laws is not who he seems to be. - (Baker & Taylor)
In the final days before Zoe Hayes's wedding to Detective Nick Stiles, a jogger turns up murdered on Zoe's back patio. Nick's brothers have come for the wedding and are staying at her home, and Zoe, now the mother of two - six-year-old Molly and baby Luke - finds evidence that at least one of her future in-laws is not who he pretends to be.
When her babysitter has a breakdown, her wedding planner is attacked, and a psychotic former patient decides to come after Zoe and her family, Zoe is caught in an intricate web of intrigue and spiraling danger that threatens to destroy a lot more than just her wedding. - (Blackwell North Amer)
Merry Jones’s avid readers raved about The Deadly Neighbors, her third fast-paced thriller featuring art therapist Zoe Hayes. Now the inimitable Zoe is back to save her marriage—and her life.
In the final days before Zoe’s wedding to Detective Nick Stiles, a jogger turns up murdered on Zoe’s back patio. Nick’s brothers have come for the wedding and are staying at her home, and Zoe, now the mother of two—six-year-old Molly and baby Luke—finds evidence that at least one of her future in-laws is not who he pretends to be.
When her babysitter has a breakdown, her wedding planner is attacked, and a psychotic former patient decides to come after Zoe and her family, Zoe is caught in an intricate web of intrigue and spiraling danger that threatens to destroy a lot more than just her wedding.
Booklist Reviews
New mother Zoe Hayes is on maternity leave, taking care of baby Luke while planning her upcoming wedding to homicide detective Nick Stiles when she finds the body of a jogger, who turns out to be a government agent, on her Philadelphia patio. Complicating matters, her boss keeps trying to contact her, and her babysitter is becoming overinvolved in her family's life. When her boss is injured in a hit-and-run accident while protecting Zoe and her son, she becomes convinced that she and her family are at risk. But is it from terrorists, drug dealers, or a former patient of the Psychiatric Institute where she works as an art therapist? Zoe solves the murder while dealing with a pushy wedding planner, a puppy yet to be housebroken, her intrusive brothers-in-law-to-be, and, finally, a kidnapping. Complex characters, multiple plot twists, and plenty of suspense add up to a satisfying episode in this entertaining amateur-sleuth series. Copyright 2008 Booklist Reviews.
