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Deceased Before the Vows: Thoroughly Inconvenient Deaths
Paperback
Series: Thoroughly Inconvenient Deaths, Book 5
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 11 2026
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Aldermere Hall has hosted forty-one events in Mrs Brierly's four years as its manager. She has planned for every contingency. She did not plan for a body.
When the Hartley-Osei wedding arrives after fourteen months of meticulous preparation, Mrs Margaret Brierly has nineteen items on her clipboard and a ceremony in six hours. By six-fifteen, she has a corpse in the east wing, a staged scene that doesn't quite hold up to forty-five seconds of careful observation, and a bride who still intends to get married at ten o'clock.
The wedding will happen. It was planned. It will be what was planned.
But first, Mrs Brierly must hold the geometry of the day, the investigation running quietly alongside the celebration, neither one allowed to compromise the other, while sixty-three guests, a string quartet, and a wedding cake under a white cloth remain entirely unaware that anything has gone wrong at all.
Deceased Before the Vows is the fifth book in the Thoroughly Inconvenient Deaths series, dry, warm, and set in the English countryside, where murder is an inconvenience rather than a horror, and the list always gets finished.
Lady Harriet Pembrook also attends the wedding. She is watching from the other angle.
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