- Print Length: 384 pages
- Publisher: William Morrow (Jan 8 2013)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers CA
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0089LONB4
Book Description
New York Times Bestselling Author
Plans for a romantic beach wedding are threatened when a bridesmaid goes missing and it falls to Piper Donovan to save the day in the third installment of Mary Jane Clark's enthralling Wedding Cake Mystery series
"Mary Jane Clark is a master at whipping up delicious nightmares for mystery fans…"-Associated Press
It's the dead of winter and struggling actress and wedding cake decorator Piper Donovan is thrilled to be in warm and romantic Sarasota, Florida, enjoying the powdery white beaches, soothing seas, and golden sunsets over the Gulf of Mexico. She and her family are there to celebrate her beloved cousin's wedding. Not only is Piper creating the sugar sand dollar-festooned wedding cake, she's also the maid of honor.
But a cloud seems to hover over the whole affair. Shortly after a bridesmaid mysteriously disappears, a kindly neighbor's car is run off the road and a prospective witness, an innocent Amish teenager, is threatened to keep silent. Then a body is found on the wedding beach. With the nuptials threatened, it falls to Piper to unmask a killer. Could it be the wedding planner with something to hide? A doctor and his wife who collect unusual Japanese figurines? The best man, an ex-drug dealer with lecherous eyes and roving hands? What about her cousin's future stepfather-or even the bridegroom himself?
As Piper gets close to figuring out who's been covering his guilty footprints in the sand, the cunning killer has already set his sights on Piper as his next victim!
About the Author
Mary Jane Clark worked at CBS News for nearly three decades. Her twelve KEY News media thrillers were inspired by that experience. Envisioning the Piper Donovan/Wedding Cake mystery series, Mary Jane enrolled in cake decorating classes and researched unique wedding locations. The daughter of an FBI agent and a mother who customized cakes for the neighborhood kids when she was growing up, Mary Jane has two grown children and splits her time between Florida and New Jersey. Currently, she is concocting her next novel.
My Review
This is my first time reading Mary Jane Clark and I must say that I enjoyed this quick cozy mystery. I appreciated the setting of Siesta Key and Sarasota Florida as I recently visited there. It brought back wonderful memories of such a picturesque location.
You do not need to have read the first two books in the Wedding Cake Mystery series to be able to dive straight into Footprints in the Sand. At the beginning there seems to be an abundance of suspects in the murder of one of the bridesmaids.
Great cozy mystery perfect for a cold winter's evening!
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