Mostly Murders

Another case for the Vintage Vanettes!

Ad/PR/Patrocinado. Book review of A Wedding Date with Death by Maeve Haran, book 2 in the A Campervan Detective Mystery series. Many thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for this ARC releasing today, Sep 30, 2026.

There’s nothing as joyous as a wedding. Unless perhaps, when the wedding comes with poison pen letters, ghosts, a work-obsessed bride, a reluctant groom, a father-in-law with a closet full of skeletons, and a murder.

After dumping her cheating husband, Sadie Sutton is enjoying her newfound campervan life in seaside Winching with her Miniature Schnauzer Sam Spade and her new friends, the Vintage Vanettes. Word has gone round about the sleuthing skills of the Vintage Vanettes, prompting Sadie’s old friend Nell to ask for help with her daughter’s wedding, as she has a feeling something bad is going to happen.

But before Sadie can do anything, the father of the groom, a famous artist and a real piece of work, is found dead on the hotel grounds, and almost everyone present has a motive for getting rid of him. Is the murder related to the hotel, to an artist’s colony from the past or something else entirely?

This second campervan mystery is filled with everything cozy: copious amounts of tea, female friendship, slow-burn romance, lots of foods and drinks, colourful locals, mysterious strangers and the ever-present question of cream tea: jam or cream first?

If you like your cozy mysteries on the gentle side, this is one to watch out for. Filled with references to art and literature, this second instalment in the series is relaxing, warm and satisfying as Sadie and her sassy friends and partners in crime detection try to catch a murderer and possibly save a wedding.

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