{"id":12132,"date":"2019-02-11T18:46:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T23:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12132"},"modified":"2019-02-11T18:46:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T23:46:12","slug":"the-wedding-guest-by-jonathan-kellerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12132","title":{"rendered":"‘The Wedding Guest,’ by Jonathan Kellerman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Reading a new Alex Delaware novel <\/strong>by Jonathan Kellerman is like dropping in on an old friend, whose place is comfortable and nobody expects you to dress up or bring a bottle. It\u2019s welcome and easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Wedding Guest<\/a><\/em>, Detective Milo Sturgis invites his psychologist friend\/consultant, Dr. Delaware, to help him interview witnesses at a murder scene. The scene is a former strip club repurposed as a party venue, where a wedding party had been going on. One of the bridesmaids went to use a washroom most of the other guests didn\u2019t know about, and found a dead body inside. A young and beautiful woman dressed in red, drugged and strangled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bride\u2019s family are Los Angeles nouveau-riche, beautiful\npeople with rough edges. The groom\u2019s parents run a veterinary practice and are\nmore down-to-earth, but they have money too \u2013 and access to the drug that\nhelped kill the victim. The chief problem at first is that the dead girl seems\nto be entirely off the grid \u2013 no identification, no police record, and nobody\nat the wedding will admit to knowing her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putting a name on her takes hard work, but when it\u2019s done\nthere\u2019s still the question of discovering why she was there that night, and who\namong those present would have a reason to end her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought the climax was a little perfunctory, but it was all about the ride anyway. The Wedding Guest<\/em> could have been three times as long and I\u2019d have enjoyed it all the way through. I particularly liked the non-stereotyped characters. Cautions for language and adult themes. Recommended, as is the entire Alex Delaware series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading a new Alex Delaware novel by Jonathan Kellerman is like dropping in on an old friend, whose place is comfortable and nobody expects you to dress up or bring a bottle. It\u2019s welcome and easy. In The Wedding Guest, Detective Milo Sturgis invites his psychologist friend\/consultant, Dr. Delaware, to help him interview witnesses at … Continue reading ‘The Wedding Guest,’ by Jonathan Kellerman<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[133,1506,3086],"class_list":["post-12132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-alex-delaware","tag-jonathan-kellerman","tag-the-wedding-guest"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}