Review: Footprints in the Sand

<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15818256-footprints-in-the-sand" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Footprints in the Sand (Wedding Cake Mystery, #3)" border="0" src="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1349905097m/15818256.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15818256-footprints-in-the-sand">Footprints in the Sand</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/40517.Mary_Jane_Clark">Mary Jane Clark</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/768097618">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
Plans for a romantic beach wedding are threatened when a bridesmaid goes missing and it falls to Piper Donovan to save the day in the third installment of Mary Jane Clark's enthralling Wedding Cake Mystery series<br><br>"Mary Jane Clark is a master at whipping up delicious nightmares for mystery fans…"-Associated Press<br><br>It's the dead of winter and struggling actress and wedding cake decorator Piper Donovan is thrilled to be in warm and romantic Sarasota, Florida, enjoying the powdery white beaches, soothing seas, and golden sunsets over the Gulf of Mexico. She and her family are there to celebrate her beloved cousin's wedding. Not only is Piper creating the sugar sand dollar-festooned wedding cake, she's also the maid of honor.<br><br>But a cloud seems to hover over the whole affair. Shortly after a bridesmaid mysteriously disappears, a kindly neighbor's car is run off the road and a prospective witness, an innocent Amish teenager, is threatened to keep silent. Then a body is found on the wedding beach. With the nuptials threatened, it falls to Piper to unmask a killer. Could it be the wedding planner with something to hide? A doctor and his wife who collect unusual Japanese figurines? The best man, an ex-drug dealer with lecherous eyes and roving hands? What about her cousin's future stepfather-or even the bridegroom himself?<br><br>As Piper gets close to figuring out who's been covering his guilty footprints in the sand, the cunning killer has already set his sights on Piper as his next victim.<br><br>-- My thoughts on this book varied. I really really loved the storyline. It moved fast, but sometimes maybe too fast. I had a hard time keeping up who was who and the mystery just seemed a bit much. I enjoyed Piper, I thought she was a fun character, easy to like and get along with. A bit of a love story in there, I just thought it lacked the extra something to really make me fall in love. Overall, a wonderful beach read....<br><br>I received a copy of this book from Goodreads first read program in exchange for my honest opinion.
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