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Unholy Matrimony Ask not for whom the wedding bell tolls, it tolls for Judith McMonigle Flynn's son Mike--and the Hillside Manor b&b is packed to the rafters with relatives. However, Mama Judith's unrestrained joy is somewhat dampened when, during the rehearsal dinner downtown, she spies a tuxedo-clad gent tossing a bridal-gowned beauty off the roof of a nearby hotel. Always one to eagerly exclaim "I do!" when offered the opportunity to investigate nefarious deeds, Judith's determination to unveil a killer could put undo stress on her own marital bliss with policeman-hubby Joe. But she remains wedded to her mission--and she's not about to take a honeymoon from amateur sleuthing until she's gotten to the bottom of the homicidal hanky-panky surrounding a match made in hell.… (plus d'informations)
Wed and Buried is the twelfth book in Mary Daheim's Bed and Breakfast cozy mystery series. The person getting wed is Michael McMonigle, Judith Grover McMonigle Flynn's son. You know how many a cozy series heroine has a best friend who's gorgeous, talented, and seems to be able to do everything effortlessly? Judith doesn't have one of those, but her son is marrying such a woman -- okay, she's striking instead of gorgeous. Kristen Rundberg has been able to faintly intimidate Judith without even trying since they met. Now she's facing the prospect of having this reincarnation of a Viking warrioress [it's a word now] for her daughter-in-law and potential mother of her future grandchildren. The wedding is Saturday. The book opens on the Thursday before. (If you think Judith and cousin Renie have some weird relatives, wait until you meet some of Kristen's!)
Judith is the only witness to a strange and violent scene next door to the hotel where Mike and Kristen's rehearsal dinner takes place. NO ONE believes her, and it's driving her nuts. She's sure that what she saw ties in to her homicide detective husband, Lt. Joe Flynn's, latest murder case. Joe keeps trying to convince her otherwise. Judith and Renie do their usual amateur sleuthing while Judith has to deal with guests, including the most troublesome of Mike's new in-laws. Gertrude, Judith's mother, is being her usual nasty self. So is their cat, Sweetums.
NOTES:
Chapter 1:
a. Aunt Ellen & Uncle Win of Beatrice, Nebraska, have sent a wedding present that neither Joe nor Judith can figure out.
b. It's been four years since Joe and Judith's wedding.
c. Cousin Renie is wrong. Her sons (and daughter) will get married. (See 'Dial M for Mom' in the Motherhood is Murder anthology)
d. Sweetums the cat is part Persian.
e. Judith is a Libra and Renie is a Scorpio.
f. Mike is now 28 years old.
g. Kristen's Aunt Leah and Uncle Tank are from Deep Denial, Idaho.
h. 'Moon River" was one of Judith's favorite songs when she and Joe were dating over 30 years ago.
i. See book five, Bantam of the Opera, for the toolshed conversion. I believe it was in book ten, Nutty as a Fruitcake, that Vivian Flynn bought a house two doors from Hillside Manor.
Chapter 2:
a. We meet some of Kristen's relatives: Her father, Sig, her mother, Merle, Uncle Gurd, Uncle Tank and Aunt Leah, Aunt Tilda (one of Sig's widowed sisters), Aunt Leota (the other widowed sister -- her Marv died in an unpleasant fashion).
b. Phyllis Rackley, Judith's cleaning woman, keeps a small Bible in her apron pocket.
c. Mike and Kristen's rehearsal dinner is being held in the penthouse dining room of the Naples Hotel.
d. Kristen's Cousin Thorald and his wife, Gitti, have their RV [recreational vehicle] parked near the zoo.
e. The roof of the Belmont Hotel is below. Judith witnesses something there.
Chapter 3:
a. It's the wedding.
b. On their honeymoon, Carl Rankers accidentally called his wife Arlene 'Darlene,' and she tried to kill him. (The Rankers sometimes chase each other with large rubber spatulas.)
c. Interesting that Merle thinks that Mike looks like Joe. According to chapter 5 of book five, aside from his red hair, Mike is image of Judith's dad.
d. In chapter 1 we were told that it's been four years since Judith and Joe wed, but Joe is saying five years ago (since they met again?). They have a short second honeymoon.
e. Phyllis thinks Sweetums is a limb of Satan.
f. St. Fabiola's Hospital is on the opposite corner from the Naples Hotel. [Saint Fabiola lived in the 4th century A.D. She was a nurse/doctor and founded a hospital in Rome. She's the patron saint of 'divorced people, difficult marriages, victims of abuse; adultery; unfaithfulness, widows; [and the] Hospice Movement'. Her first husband was a nasty piece of work.]
Chapter 4:
a. Mike and Kristen are having a 10-day honeymoon in Mexico.
b. Uncle Gurd's method of taking a shower is not the usual one.
Chapter 5:
a. Phyllis Rackley likes to listen to fundamentalist programs on the radio. She's a fan of a Reverend Crump on TV.
b. Judith hears Kip Sherman, a nephew of Bill Jones, on the radio.
c. Judith tries on the Lavender Dreams evening gown at I. Magnifique.
Chapter 6:
a. Gertrude, addressing her daughter as 'Judith Anne,' is either forgetting things or faking it.
b. Joe's mother died young. He says his father was impossible.
c. Judith tries to explain to Phyllis that Catholics don't worship statues. (True.)
d. We get a list of some persons who would have liked to have gotten rid of the murder victim.
e. We meet Esperanza Highcastle, the Highcastle Hot Dogs heiress.
Chapter 7:
a. Judith has had the honeysuckle vine that Joe has pruned since she was a girl.
b. Judith has a phone conversation with Merle regarding the wedding bills.
c. Uncle Gurd is Sig's uncle.
Chapter 8:
a. Dan McMonigle had been a bartender when Judith met him.
b. We meet TNT Tenino.
c. The Grover family lawyer's name is mentioned as William Ewart Gladstone Whiffel. Is he related to the Ewart Gladstone Whiffel who had been Judith's last family lawyer who had died around the same time as Dan, as mentioned in chapter 8 of book three, Holy Terrors?
Chapter 9:
a. Arlene Rankers & two other SOTS (Our Lady, Star of the Sea Catholic Church parishioners) are in charge of making sure there's food for funerals. Rotation is alphabetical. Judith, as a Flynn, won't be on call until the first week of September. Renie is contributing to the freezer now.
b. John Smith was born blind and abandoned by his unwed mother.
c. TNT meets Gertrude.
d. Aunt Deb still mends her nylon stockings.
e. Sorry, I don't recall in which book Judith rescued a guest from the bar at Foozle's.
f. Renie has an accident with her car. Too bad about who was in the white sedan she hit.
Chapter 10:
a. Renie's gossip about a couple of upcoming operas upsets Woody. (I once saw 'Romeo and Juliet' staged as if they were modern Mob families, so I don't find Renie's gossip farfetched.)
b. Melissa Bargroom, the local music critic, whose name Renie is dropping, appeared in book 5, Bantam of the Opera.
c. Joe, Judith, Woody, and Renie look around the Belmont.
d. Judith and Arlene look at a vacant condo in Belgravia Gardens. (Is Cathy the real name of the Rankers daughter called 'Mugs'?)
Chapter 11:
a. Phyllis has a cousin Klepto.
b. Dooley (Aloysius Gonzaga Dooley, the Dooley's eldest son) may be off to college, but his younger brother, O. P. (Oliver Plunkett) still has Dooley's telescope. O.P., now 13 years old, helped out in Nutty as a Fruitcake. [Saint Oliver Plunkett was the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland in the 17th century. He was executed for promoting Catholicism. He's the patron saint for peace & reconciliation in Ireland.]
c. Dooley is home at the moment. He describes the time he saw Harley Davidson live at a rock concert downtown.
d. One of the Dooley brothers' nephews is a little boy named Pius X, 'Pix' for short. [Pope 1903-1914. He's the patron saint of emigrants from Treviso, Italy. He's also known as the 'Pope of the Blessed Sacrament'.] I'm not sure if the nude little girl riding the dog is a Dooley child or grandchild.
Chapter 12:
a. Because Judith goes to Renie's house, we have a scene with of the Jones' Holland dwarf lop, Clarence.
b. Judith meets someone at the emergency pet clinic. (Clarence likes his Fat Boy food and drinks only Evian water.)
c. Mike has been working at the Idaho panhandle Nez Perce National Park. Kristen is hoping to be transferred there from the Craters of the Moon National Monument.
d. The late Dan McMonigle loved the Bulkbusters warehouse.
Chapter 13:
a. There's trouble at the radio station.
b. It's a rainy 4th of July. Still, Gertrude says she prefers the days when Uncle Cliff (Renie's late dad) put cherry bombs in Aunt Deb's oven and Uncle Al's Roman candles set fire to a neighbor's garage.
c. Phyllis gives an interesting, if implausible, reason that Satan is in hell.
d. Harley Davidson was seen with some people from the Red Fog recording label (one of their rock groups is called 'Mud Bath').
Chapter 14:
a. Judith thought she'd given Mike the birds & the bees talk when he was in 6th grade, but it was Dan when Mike was in 4th grade.
b. Mike has 'Daniel Neal McMonigle 1937-1986' tattooed inside his left upper arm. (He had it done in Mexico.)
c. Once Dan let Judith go to Thanksgiving dinner with her family if she made him a meal before she left. He put the turkey in the mailbox.
d. Here it's said that Vivian has two sons. In chapter 6 of Holy Terrors, Joe said his stepchildren are Doug and Terri.
Chapter 15:
a. Besides the KRAS and KORN radio stations, the Heraldsgate 400 building has the Highcastle Hot Dogs administrative offices, as well as other businesses.
b. Apparently, the mascot for Highcastle Hot Dogs is, or was, Willie, the Winking Wienie.
c. Renie talks about problems with political correctness arguments at work.
d. Donna and husband Arnold Weick of the Gem Shop has been serving various members of the Grover family for almost 20 years.
Chapter 16:
a. Bill Jones once gave Billy Big Horn $20 after he played 'Danny Boy' on his harmonica for Bill's mother.
b. Uncle Gurd has Judith's bathrobe. (She probably won't want it back.)
Chapter 17:
a. We see Judith's list of suspects and what she has to write about them.
b. Judith gets a letter from the Internal Revenue Service.
c. Gertrude likes Granny Goodness chewy caramels. [If you've ever read about the "Granny Goodness" comic book character, the name should give you pause.]
Chapter 18: Judith gets a call from Vivian.
Chapter 19:
a. Judith has Grandma Grover's silver tray.
b. O. P. Dooley, described as 13 in chapter 11, is here stated to be 12 years old.
There's plenty going on besides a wedding in this entry. How do a right-wing relatives, a hot dog heiress, a boxer, radio stations, a fashion designer, and his models come together in a case of murder and other crimes? With humor, of course. Come along for the ride and be grateful you don't have to deal with any of the relatives or suspects.
Rabbit lovers: Renie and Bill's Holland dwarf lop, Clarence, has some action in ch. 12.
Dog lovers: There's the well-mannered Dooley dog (see ch. 11), Darrell Mims' black and white mutt, Sound Bite (see ch. 12), and a glimpse of a Dandie Dinmont (see ch. 10).
Cat lovers: Sweetums gets into mischief, of course. I laughed at his role in the climax, particularly the last sentence describing it. ( )
I think that the mystery was fine, but I didn't like the way Joe talked/treated Judith. It wasn't a teasing sort of chiding, but more of a dirisive and dismissive way. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but this one was kinda harsh towards Judith. If you have seen I Love Lucy, it's the Ricky Syndrome, he doesn't want his wife in show biz, and all she wants is to be part of his life, all aspects- show biz and all. While Judith is more like the curious cat, who can't let go of the mouse even if it drags her somewhere she shouldn't go, that's part of her nature, wouln'd Joe have known that in their previous lives? ( )
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Unholy Matrimony Ask not for whom the wedding bell tolls, it tolls for Judith McMonigle Flynn's son Mike--and the Hillside Manor b&b is packed to the rafters with relatives. However, Mama Judith's unrestrained joy is somewhat dampened when, during the rehearsal dinner downtown, she spies a tuxedo-clad gent tossing a bridal-gowned beauty off the roof of a nearby hotel. Always one to eagerly exclaim "I do!" when offered the opportunity to investigate nefarious deeds, Judith's determination to unveil a killer could put undo stress on her own marital bliss with policeman-hubby Joe. But she remains wedded to her mission--and she's not about to take a honeymoon from amateur sleuthing until she's gotten to the bottom of the homicidal hanky-panky surrounding a match made in hell.
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Judith is the only witness to a strange and violent scene next door to the hotel where Mike and Kristen's rehearsal dinner takes place. NO ONE believes her, and it's driving her nuts. She's sure that what she saw ties in to her homicide detective husband, Lt. Joe Flynn's, latest murder case. Joe keeps trying to convince her otherwise. Judith and Renie do their usual amateur sleuthing while Judith has to deal with guests, including the most troublesome of Mike's new in-laws. Gertrude, Judith's mother, is being her usual nasty self. So is their cat, Sweetums.
NOTES:
Chapter 1:
a. Aunt Ellen & Uncle Win of Beatrice, Nebraska, have sent a wedding present that neither Joe nor Judith can figure out.
b. It's been four years since Joe and Judith's wedding.
c. Cousin Renie is wrong. Her sons (and daughter) will get married. (See 'Dial M for Mom' in the Motherhood is Murder anthology)
d. Sweetums the cat is part Persian.
e. Judith is a Libra and Renie is a Scorpio.
f. Mike is now 28 years old.
g. Kristen's Aunt Leah and Uncle Tank are from Deep Denial, Idaho.
h. 'Moon River" was one of Judith's favorite songs when she and Joe were dating over 30 years ago.
i. See book five, Bantam of the Opera, for the toolshed conversion. I believe it was in book ten, Nutty as a Fruitcake, that Vivian Flynn bought a house two doors from Hillside Manor.
Chapter 2:
a. We meet some of Kristen's relatives: Her father, Sig, her mother, Merle, Uncle Gurd, Uncle Tank and Aunt Leah, Aunt Tilda (one of Sig's widowed sisters), Aunt Leota (the other widowed sister -- her Marv died in an unpleasant fashion).
b. Phyllis Rackley, Judith's cleaning woman, keeps a small Bible in her apron pocket.
c. Mike and Kristen's rehearsal dinner is being held in the penthouse dining room of the Naples Hotel.
d. Kristen's Cousin Thorald and his wife, Gitti, have their RV [recreational vehicle] parked near the zoo.
e. The roof of the Belmont Hotel is below. Judith witnesses something there.
Chapter 3:
a. It's the wedding.
b. On their honeymoon, Carl Rankers accidentally called his wife Arlene 'Darlene,' and she tried to kill him. (The Rankers sometimes chase each
other with large rubber spatulas.)
c. Interesting that Merle thinks that Mike looks like Joe. According to chapter 5 of book five, aside from his red hair, Mike is image of Judith's dad.
d. In chapter 1 we were told that it's been four years since Judith and Joe wed, but Joe is saying five years ago (since they met again?). They have a short second honeymoon.
e. Phyllis thinks Sweetums is a limb of Satan.
f. St. Fabiola's Hospital is on the opposite corner from the Naples Hotel. [Saint Fabiola lived in the 4th century A.D. She was a nurse/doctor and founded a hospital in Rome. She's the patron saint of 'divorced people, difficult marriages, victims of abuse; adultery; unfaithfulness, widows; [and the] Hospice Movement'. Her first husband was a nasty piece of work.]
Chapter 4:
a. Mike and Kristen are having a 10-day honeymoon in Mexico.
b. Uncle Gurd's method of taking a shower is not the usual one.
Chapter 5:
a. Phyllis Rackley likes to listen to fundamentalist programs on the radio. She's a fan of a Reverend Crump on TV.
b. Judith hears Kip Sherman, a nephew of Bill Jones, on the radio.
c. Judith tries on the Lavender Dreams evening gown at I. Magnifique.
Chapter 6:
a. Gertrude, addressing her daughter as 'Judith Anne,' is either forgetting things or faking it.
b. Joe's mother died young. He says his father was impossible.
c. Judith tries to explain to Phyllis that Catholics don't worship statues. (True.)
d. We get a list of some persons who would have liked to have gotten rid of the murder victim.
e. We meet Esperanza Highcastle, the Highcastle Hot Dogs heiress.
Chapter 7:
a. Judith has had the honeysuckle vine that Joe has pruned since she was a girl.
b. Judith has a phone conversation with Merle regarding the wedding bills.
c. Uncle Gurd is Sig's uncle.
Chapter 8:
a. Dan McMonigle had been a bartender when Judith met him.
b. We meet TNT Tenino.
c. The Grover family lawyer's name is mentioned as William Ewart Gladstone Whiffel. Is he related to the Ewart Gladstone Whiffel who had been Judith's last family lawyer who had died around the same time as Dan, as mentioned in chapter 8 of book three, Holy Terrors?
Chapter 9:
a. Arlene Rankers & two other SOTS (Our Lady, Star of the Sea Catholic Church parishioners) are in charge of making sure there's food for funerals. Rotation is alphabetical. Judith, as a Flynn, won't be on call until the first week of September. Renie is contributing to the freezer now.
b. John Smith was born blind and abandoned by his unwed mother.
c. TNT meets Gertrude.
d. Aunt Deb still mends her nylon stockings.
e. Sorry, I don't recall in which book Judith rescued a guest from the bar at Foozle's.
f. Renie has an accident with her car. Too bad about who was in the white sedan she hit.
Chapter 10:
a. Renie's gossip about a couple of upcoming operas upsets Woody. (I once saw 'Romeo and Juliet' staged as if they were modern Mob families, so I don't find Renie's gossip farfetched.)
b. Melissa Bargroom, the local music critic, whose name Renie is dropping, appeared in book 5, Bantam of the Opera.
c. Joe, Judith, Woody, and Renie look around the Belmont.
d. Judith and Arlene look at a vacant condo in Belgravia Gardens. (Is Cathy the real name of the Rankers daughter called 'Mugs'?)
Chapter 11:
a. Phyllis has a cousin Klepto.
b. Dooley (Aloysius Gonzaga Dooley, the Dooley's eldest son) may be off to college, but his younger brother, O. P. (Oliver Plunkett) still has Dooley's telescope. O.P., now 13 years old, helped out in Nutty as a Fruitcake. [Saint Oliver Plunkett was the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland in the 17th century. He was executed for promoting Catholicism. He's the patron saint for peace & reconciliation in Ireland.]
c. Dooley is home at the moment. He describes the time he saw Harley Davidson live at a rock concert downtown.
d. One of the Dooley brothers' nephews is a little boy named Pius X, 'Pix' for short. [Pope 1903-1914. He's the patron saint of emigrants from Treviso, Italy. He's also known as the 'Pope of the Blessed Sacrament'.] I'm not sure if the nude little girl riding the dog is a Dooley child or grandchild.
Chapter 12:
a. Because Judith goes to Renie's house, we have a scene with of the Jones' Holland dwarf lop, Clarence.
b. Judith meets someone at the emergency pet clinic. (Clarence likes his Fat Boy food and drinks only Evian water.)
c. Mike has been working at the Idaho panhandle Nez Perce National Park. Kristen is hoping to be transferred there from the Craters of the Moon National Monument.
d. The late Dan McMonigle loved the Bulkbusters warehouse.
Chapter 13:
a. There's trouble at the radio station.
b. It's a rainy 4th of July. Still, Gertrude says she prefers the days when Uncle Cliff (Renie's late dad) put cherry bombs in Aunt Deb's oven and Uncle Al's Roman candles set fire to a neighbor's garage.
c. Phyllis gives an interesting, if implausible, reason that Satan is in hell.
d. Harley Davidson was seen with some people from the Red Fog recording label (one of their rock groups is called 'Mud Bath').
Chapter 14:
a. Judith thought she'd given Mike the birds & the bees talk when he was in 6th grade, but it was Dan when Mike was in 4th grade.
b. Mike has 'Daniel Neal McMonigle 1937-1986' tattooed inside his left upper arm. (He had it done in Mexico.)
c. Once Dan let Judith go to Thanksgiving dinner with her family if she made him a meal before she left. He put the turkey in the mailbox.
d. Here it's said that Vivian has two sons. In chapter 6 of Holy Terrors, Joe said his stepchildren are Doug and Terri.
Chapter 15:
a. Besides the KRAS and KORN radio stations, the Heraldsgate 400 building has the Highcastle Hot Dogs administrative offices, as well as other businesses.
b. Apparently, the mascot for Highcastle Hot Dogs is, or was, Willie, the Winking Wienie.
c. Renie talks about problems with political correctness arguments at work.
d. Donna and husband Arnold Weick of the Gem Shop has been serving various members of the Grover family for almost 20 years.
Chapter 16:
a. Bill Jones once gave Billy Big Horn $20 after he played 'Danny Boy' on his harmonica for Bill's mother.
b. Uncle Gurd has Judith's bathrobe. (She probably won't want it back.)
Chapter 17:
a. We see Judith's list of suspects and what she has to write about them.
b. Judith gets a letter from the Internal Revenue Service.
c. Gertrude likes Granny Goodness chewy caramels. [If you've ever read about the "Granny Goodness" comic book character, the name should give you pause.]
Chapter 18: Judith gets a call from Vivian.
Chapter 19:
a. Judith has Grandma Grover's silver tray.
b. O. P. Dooley, described as 13 in chapter 11, is here stated to be 12 years old.
There's plenty going on besides a wedding in this entry. How do a right-wing relatives, a hot dog heiress, a boxer, radio stations, a fashion designer, and his models come together in a case of murder and other crimes? With humor, of course. Come along for the ride and be grateful you don't have to deal with any of the relatives or suspects.
Rabbit lovers: Renie and Bill's Holland dwarf lop, Clarence, has some action in ch. 12.
Dog lovers: There's the well-mannered Dooley dog (see ch. 11), Darrell Mims' black and white mutt, Sound Bite (see ch. 12), and a glimpse of a Dandie Dinmont (see ch. 10).
Cat lovers: Sweetums gets into mischief, of course. I laughed at his role in the climax, particularly the last sentence describing it. (