Otherwise Engaged

by Laura Young

Soon after she falls for a sad story and agrees to pose as the loving fiancee of a guy she hardly knows, Kate learns that planning a wedding - real or imagined - involves a lot more than wearing a huge diamond ring and picking out china patterns. It might just be the death of her.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Joanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Kate Kelly cozy mystery. The book chronicles an engagement farce and the upcoming celebration that turns into a weekend of murder, fires and threats.

Underwear model Brent, while very attractive is sometimes short on brain power. Kate accepts his proposal to act as his fake finance during a family weekend in Lexington, KY on a horse farm. From their arrival things go bad! You have a dysfunctional family, Kate’s sleuth intuition lurking about the farm, a dead burnt body, a dead champion horse and lots of players who are deceitful during the festivity.

Young’s characters are funny and witty and you can’t help but like them. You almost forget the bloodshed as you read the entertaining story.

[Shauna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I laughed out loud many times. This is a mystery, but a clean and highly entertaining one.

[Kristen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the second book in the Kate Kelly series, when she poses as a fiance, and winds up in trouble. A good easy cozy read. I don't know what happened to her, since she wrote only two books.