cover image Aye Do or Die: A Darcy Cavanaugh
\t\t  Mystery

Aye Do or Die: A Darcy Cavanaugh \t\t Mystery

Candy Calvert, .\t\t . Midnight Ink, $12.95 (264pp) ISBN 978-0-7387-0904-8

In Calvert's amusing mishmash of a whodunit, her second to feature \t\t nurse Darcy Cavanaugh (after 2006's Dressed to \t\t Keel), Darcy and her lesbian co-worker friend, Marie Whitley, serve \t\t as bridesmaids in what develops into the wedding party from hell. Darcy and \t\t Marie join a prenuptial West Coast cruise hosted by the bride-to-be, Southern \t\t belle Patti Ann Devereaux, and her fireman fiancé, "Cowboy" Kyle. After \t\t the boat leaves San Francisco, wedding planner Kirsty Pelham is driven over the \t\t edge by the shenanigans of the hard-drinking, prank-pulling fire brigade Kyle \t\t has lined up as groomsmen. Then the jokes turn deadly as a poisoning and a \t\t crotch-related glue assault escalate into death by document shredder. The \t\t coarse language and adolescent sexual antics may offend some cozy readers. \t\t Those with a taste for slapstick humor will be most rewarded. \t\t (Feb.)