MYSTERY

Beach Wedding

Hanover Square: Harlequin. Feb. 2022. 352p. ISBN 9781335425751. $27.99. M
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Fans of cold case novels will enjoy this story with its unexpected twists. When Tom Rourke rents an estate and staff in Southampton, he pays $5 million for the month of July to celebrate his wedding. He wants his Irish American family to show off to all the people who shunned their family 20 years ago. But his younger brother Terry has his own way of getting even. Terry is now a police sergeant in Philadelphia with a wife and growing family. Although he was a teenager then, he remembers Hailey Sutton’s trial for killing her husband, Noah. Stolen evidence and bribed witnesses destroyed their father’s case against her and destroyed the assistant DA’s career and life. While the family celebrates Tom’s upcoming wedding, Terry digs for evidence in the cold case that could put Hailey back in court. But he’s faced with crooked cops and a dirty DA. He also uncovers sickening information that leads him into the kind of trouble that Sutton money can buy.
VERDICT Ledwidge (the “Michael Gannon” series) adopts techniques from his sometimes-coauthor James Patterson (with whom he wrote Zoo) for this fast-paced stand-alone mystery with short, snappy chapters.
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