Vows, Vendettas and a Little Black Dress

By Kyra Davis

Overjoyed at Maryanne's engagement, amateur sleuth Sophie Katz can't wait for the wedding vows and party toasts to begin. But then Denabest friend, bridesmaid and all-around vixenis mysteriously shot just after the announcement. Leave this to the authorities? No way. Dena may never walk again, and Sophie vows to marry her fists with the shooter's face.

Problem is, the number of suspects is off the chartsfrom jaded lovers to anti-free-lovers to just plain old haters. Dena's made plenty of enemies thanks to her popular sex shopand, yes, she's no saintbut really, who deserves to be shot?

With an überlogical almost boyfriend condemning her vigilante quest, and a wedding planner going vicariously bridezilla over the dream princess wedding, Sophie's barely thinking straight. But if she can keep her cool (and avoid all errant taffeta), she just might nab her man and save the (wedding) day.

Big if.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Harlequin
• Release date: Jun 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781459246294

Kyra Davis

Kyra Davis was born in the San Francisco Bay Area where, with the exception of a brief stint in New York, she has spent her entire life. She majored in business and humanities at Golden Gate University and, after graduating with her bachelor's degree, began a career in fashion merchandising and marketing. At age 27 Kyra gave birth to a wonderful son and stayed home with him for the first 18 months of his life. During her hiatus from work she managed to spend just enough quality time with her husband to motivate her to file for divorce. As a single mother on the verge of bankruptcy, Kyra felt it was irresponsible to drown her sorrows in Cosmopolitans so she drowned them in Frappucinos and writing instead. The Frappucinos (complimented by a healthy dose of anxiety) lead to insomnia, which lead to more writing time and it wasn't long before she realized that she had found her calling. Two years later Kyra had an agent, a finished manuscript and bids from two New York publishing houses. She feels the secret to living a happy life is to pursue your passions and learn from your mistakes, which is why she has quit her day job to become a full-time writer and will only spend quality time with her son, her friends...and Juan Valdez.

Reviews for Vows, Vendettas and a Little Black Dress

[Rothers948 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Absolute shambles! I was about halfway through this book and it got blocked from my country (Australia). Some notice to allow me to finish the book would have been nice! Instead I stopped reading last night and today the book is gone! Shambles

[dragonflydee1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Just plain fun to read--laughed out loud at a few parts.

[seasonsoflove_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This is a series I've enjoyed a lot since the beginning, but this entry was not as good as I had hoped. Whereas the previous books had such great humor, almost Janet Evanovich-like, this book tried to tackle too many complicated and tragic issues. When I pick up a book like this, I'm expecting, and want, fun, great dialogue, romance, and a good mystery. And while I did get these things, the book was brought down by the attempt to suddenly get very serious. There are other authors who deal with heavy subjects within mysteries, but when I go for a [[Kyra Davis]], I don't expect to read about a best friend getting shot and possibly never walking again, a possible stalker, and what feels like eight hundred fights between the main character and her boyfriend. I fell in love with this series for the romance and the humor, which felt strangely lacking in this book.That said, I did enjoy the book, though not even close to as much as the other books in the series. There was still some great humor, especially surrounding one of the characters wanting a Disneyland wedding, and the mystery was clever and well-executed. I will be reading the new book in this series in hopes it gets more of its magic back.

[miyurose_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Sophie is an established author who fancies herself a bit of a detective. I’m jumping in 5 books into the series, but any backstory that was relevant is explained. The characters here are over-the-top in one way or another, from the Disney loving Mary-Ann and Monty to the polyamorous Dena and Jason to the perpetually-stoned Amelia to the secretive Russian Anatoly. And Sophie is the glue that holds all of them together. As you would expect from the cover, the tone to this mystery is relatively light. At least, as light as it can be when someone has been shot and possibly paralyzed. My one complaint is that Sophie doesn’t really do any detecting here… things just sort of happen to her, and she reacts. The actions she takes are generally a result of someone else’s contribution or intervention. And at one point it looked like there was going to be a twist, but then it just evaporated. I think I might have preferred that to the actual ending, which was not entirely unexpected. All in all, this wasn’t a bad read, but I probably won’t rush out to pick up the earlier books in the series.