SummaryDuring his distinguished career as a journalist, Mark
Manning has seen it all--riots, murder, political
corruption, and every manifestation of the dark heart of
the human species. But even his proven emotional resources
will be stretched when the home he shares with his lover,
architect Neil Waite, and his ward and nephew, Thad
Quatrain, becomes the site of one of the most daunting,
taxing, and potentially dangerous of all human rituals--a
wedding.
Roxanne Exner, best friend to both Mark and Neil, is having
her nuptial ceremony at their house in the normally bucolic
Dumont, Wisconsin, partly because Carl Creighton, her
husband to be, is in the final weeks of his campaign for
lieutenant governor of Illinois. For Roxanne, Dumont will
afford some needed distance from the campaign, and for the
city of Dumont, it will be the social event of the season.
The wedding, despite everyone's fears, comes off with nary
a hitch. The reception, however, takes a disastrous turn
when a local matron, who happens to be a major donor to the
campaign of Creighton's rival, is killed in what appears to
be a freak electrical mishap. Authorities soon discover that the electrocution was no
accident. Then another shocker--Roxanne herself becomes the
prime suspect. If Roxanne is ever to enjoy her honeymoon,
and if Carl and his running mate are to stand a chance of
election, Mark finds himself in a race against the clock to
solve a most perplexing murder.
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