Three Days To Forever

No cover — Lauren Carr: Three Days To Forever (EBook, Acorn Book Services)

eBook, 466 pages

English language

Published by Acorn Book Services.

(1 review)

In one of the most critically-acclaimed Mac Faraday Mysteries from best-selling mystery author Lauren Carr, readers embark on a roller-coaster adventure with old friends (including the Lovers in Crime team of Prosecutor Joshua Thornton and Homicide Detective Cameron Gates), but also meet new ones as Mac Faraday’s daughter Jessica Faraday and Joshua Thornton’s son Murphy Thornton join the team in the race to get the lovebirds to the altar!

With three days left to the year, Deep Creek Lake is hopping with holiday vacationers and wedding guests pouring into the Spencer Inn for Mac Faraday and Archie Monday’s huge wedding ceremony which is being touted as the social event of the year.

But droopy flowers and guests who failed to RSVP are the least of Mac’s and Archie’s problems when a professional hit squad hits Spencer Manor to send the groom, Joshua Thornton, Archie’s mother, and Gnarly running for their …

In one of the most critically-acclaimed Mac Faraday Mysteries from best-selling mystery author Lauren Carr, readers embark on a roller-coaster adventure with old friends (including the Lovers in Crime team of Prosecutor Joshua Thornton and Homicide Detective Cameron Gates), but also meet new ones as Mac Faraday’s daughter Jessica Faraday and Joshua Thornton’s son Murphy Thornton join the team in the race to get the lovebirds to the altar!

With three days left to the year, Deep Creek Lake is hopping with holiday vacationers and wedding guests pouring into the Spencer Inn for Mac Faraday and Archie Monday’s huge wedding ceremony which is being touted as the social event of the year.

But droopy flowers and guests who failed to RSVP are the least of Mac’s and Archie’s problems when a professional hit squad hits Spencer Manor to send the groom, Joshua Thornton, Archie’s mother, and Gnarly running for their lives.

With time running out to the big day, Mac Faraday and Spencer’s small police force have to sort through the clues to figure out not only who has been targeted for assassination, but also who is determined to stop everything … FOREVER!

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Stephanie Jane reviewed Three Days To Forever by Lauren Carr (Mac Faraday mystery, #9)

An entertaining read

4 stars

Three Days To Forever is the ninth volume in Lauren Carr's 'Mac Faraday' mystery series. After the classic crime vibe of The Murders At Astaire Castle, the previous Mac Faraday novel I read, Three Days To Forever takes us readers deep into military thriller territory. I will admit that this isn't one of my favourite genres, but I am impressed with how effortlessly Carr can switch from one genre to another whilst still maintaining the integrity of the characters that I have come to love. In this story the juxtaposition of wedding chaos, such as horrendous hairstyles, with an international terrorism crisis makes for an exhilarating read!

Everybody coming to Spencer Mountain for the society wedding of the year does mean that I had a lot of characters to keep track of, not always successfully, and I did feel that my favourites, such as Archie Monday and even Gnarly did …

Three Days To Forever is the ninth volume in Lauren Carr's 'Mac Faraday' mystery series. After the classic crime vibe of The Murders At Astaire Castle, the previous Mac Faraday novel I read, Three Days To Forever takes us readers deep into military thriller territory. I will admit that this isn't one of my favourite genres, but I am impressed with how effortlessly Carr can switch from one genre to another whilst still maintaining the integrity of the characters that I have come to love. In this story the juxtaposition of wedding chaos, such as horrendous hairstyles, with an international terrorism crisis makes for an exhilarating read!

Everybody coming to Spencer Mountain for the society wedding of the year does mean that I had a lot of characters to keep track of, not always successfully, and I did feel that my favourites, such as Archie Monday and even Gnarly did sometimes feel sidelined by the newcomers. That said though, there certainly wasn't ever a dull moment in Three Days To Forever and it was good to see David O'Callaghan stepping out from Mac's shadow. I appreciated as well how sensitively Carr handled the Islamist terrorism story angle. While the popular Western view of ISIS operatives had influenced certain characters, others were far from that preconception and a moment was taken to show how damaging that ideology is to other Muslims as well.

While I wasn't as enamoured with Three Days To Forever as I was with some of the other books in this series, the brilliant Shadow Of Murder for example, it was an entertaining read with a good blend of excitement, disaster and humour.

Subjects

Crime Fiction
Mystery