Beach Wedding

by Michael Ledwidge

Overview

"Michael Ledwidge writing solo is even better than Michael Ledwidge and James Patterson. Beach Wedding is his best yet. Incredible wealth, beach houses, murder, dysfunctional families—how can you beat all that? READ THIS BOOK!" —James Patterson on Beach Wedding

A high-society wedding party stirs up new evidence in an unsolved murder in this thrilling stand-alone from the New York Times bestselling coauthor of James Patterson’s Now You See Her and The Quickie.

Hamptons sand… Hamptons money… Hamptons murder…

When Terry Rourke is invited to the spare-no-expense beach wedding of his hedge fund manager brother, he thinks that his biggest worry will be flubbing the champagne toast. But this isn’t the first time Terry has been to the Hamptons.

As the designer tuxedos are laid out and the flowers arranged along the glittering surf, Terry can’t help but take another look at a decades-old murder trial that rocked the very foundations of the town—and his family. He soon learns that digging up billion-dollar sand can be a very dangerous activity. The kind of danger that can very quickly turn even the most beautiful beach wedding into a wake.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781335425751
Publisher:	Hanover Square Press
Publication date:	02/15/2022
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	1,161,516
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

MICHAEL LEDWIDGE is the writer of seventeen novels, the last dozen being New York Times bestsellers cowritten with one of the world’s bestselling authors, James Patterson. With twenty million copies in print, their Michael Bennett series is the highest-selling New York City detective series of all time. One of their novels, Zoo, became a three-season CBS television series. He lives in Connecticut.

Editorial Reviews

12/13/2021

Philadelphia police officer Terry Rourke, the winning narrator of this entertaining thriller from bestseller Ledwidge (Run for Cover), has reluctantly returned to the Hamptons for the first time since he left for college some 20 years earlier, to attend his brother Tom’s extravagant wedding. Now a wealthy New York City hedge fund manager, Tom has pulled out all the stops for the occasion, renting a Southampton dream house, complete with chefs, maids, and gardeners, that costs $500,000 per month. Tom has plans “to stick it to” certain members of the Southampton elite who made life difficult for the Rourke family when the boys were growing up in Hampton Bays, “the poor man’s Hamptons,” after their father, Suffolk County’s head assistant district attorney, tried socialite Hailey Sutton for killing her husband, Noah. Memories of the worst period in Terry’s life come flooding back, and he becomes obsessed with discovering the real story about Noah’s death. Meanwhile, others want the truth to remain dead and buried. Appealing characters and snappy patter more than compensate for the so-so ending. Ledwidge really knows how to tell a story. Agent: Josh Getzler, Hannigan Getzler Literary. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

"Appealing characters and snappy patter... Ledwidge really knows how to tell a story." —Publishers Weekly

"Ledwidge... shines in portraying the simmering culture clash that is life in rich towns as well as the best parts—love, humor, protectiveness—of life in close clans." —First Clue



Praise for Michael Ledwidge

"This one’s for fans of the Die Hard movie franchise." —Publishers Weekly on Run for Cover

“Ledwidge knows how to tell a fast-paced story, and he has created an appealing maverick hero… Give this one to those who remember and still love John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee.” —Booklist on Stop at Nothing

"This book [is] worthy of going to the top of your must-read list, thanks to Ledwidge’s peerless setup and execution of each and every scene." —Bookreporter on Stop at Nothing

"A fast-paced thriller by an author who has mastered his craft, with lots of action, knowing detail, plenty of twists and turns and characters to cheer or hiss." —Forbes on Stop at Nothing

From the Publisher

02/01/2022

Fans of cold case novels will enjoy this story with its unexpected twists. When Tom Rourke rents an estate and staff in Southampton, he pays $5 million for the month of July to celebrate his wedding. He wants his Irish American family to show off to all the people who shunned their family 20 years ago. But his younger brother Terry has his own way of getting even. Terry is now a police sergeant in Philadelphia with a wife and growing family. Although he was a teenager then, he remembers Hailey Sutton's trial for killing her husband, Noah. Stolen evidence and bribed witnesses destroyed their father's case against her and destroyed the assistant DA's career and life. While the family celebrates Tom's upcoming wedding, Terry digs for evidence in the cold case that could put Hailey back in court. But he's faced with crooked cops and a dirty DA. He also uncovers sickening information that leads him into the kind of trouble that Sutton money can buy. VERDICT Ledwidge (the "Michael Gannon" series) adopts techniques from his sometimes-coauthor James Patterson (with whom he wrote Zoo) for this fast-paced stand-alone mystery with short, snappy chapters.—Lesa Holstine

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