You owe yourselves this Christmastime mystery (after Murder of the Cat's Meow), the 16th cozy for Swanson's school psychologist Skye Denison. Just days before Skye's wedding, she becomes distracted when the town's new librarian is murdered. (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

A wedding is on the agenda in Swanson's long-running Scumble River series. School psychologist Skye Denison and police chief Wally Boyd will marry in less than a week (right after Christmas), and there is plenty still to do even before librarian Yvonne Osborne is killed, apparently having been forced off a bridge in her car. Now Wally is missing holiday celebrations, and Skye has a vision of what being married to a cop is going to be like. She perseveres, however, continuing with the wedding preparations while helping Wally question suspects in her role as police psychologist consultant. Swanson effectively mixes the ongoing investigation with plenty of humorous slices of Skye's daily life. Series fans will enjoy both the crime solving and the small-town high jinks and, of course, they get a wedding at the end!--Alessio, Amy Copyright 2010 Booklist