My favorite former-pop-star-turned-assistant-dorm-director-amateur-sleuth, Heather Wells, is back and determined to have a murder free academic year so she can focus on getting her long-delayed bachelor\'s degree and planning her wedding to Private Investigator Cooper Cartwright. As is typical in Heather\'s world, nothing goes as planned. The school year hasn\'t even started and the Death Dorm has claimed its first victim, a Residential Assistant is found dead after an all-night party hosted by the dorm\'s latest high profile resident, Crown Prince Rashid Ashraf bin Zayed Faisal.

Heather is determined to find out the truth behind the RA\'s death and Rascally Rashid\'s involvement in order to be sure that her dorm residents are safe. But Heather is distracted from her sleuthing by all the family craziness that surrounds her wedding planning, not the least of which is the unexpected return of the mother who disappeared years earlier with Heather\'s hard-earned pop star money. Can Heather get everything sorted out in time to enjoy her long awaited walk down the aisle?

THE BRIDE WORE SIZE 12 is a fun, flirty read with just the right amount of mystery. I have enjoyed every book in Meg Cabot\'s Heather Wells mystery series and this fifth book is no exception. Heather\'s pop star history and the strained relationship with her mother have been in the background of the series so seeing them confront these issues head-on was a treat. Heather manages her family and sleuthing with her trademark snarky humor, inner strength, and honest self-awareness. I thoroughly enjoyed how Copper and Heather have settled into a loving committed relationship and how they managed the wedding mishaps they had to face.

Book Summary

Heather Wells is used to having her cake and eating it too, but this time her cake just might be cooked. Her wedding cake, that is.

With her upcoming nuptials to PI Cooper Cartwright only weeks away, Heather's already stressed. And when a pretty junior turns up dead, Heather's sure things can't get worse—until every student in the dorm where she works is a possible suspect, and Heather's long-lost mother shows up.

Heather has no time for a tearful mother and bride reunion. She has a wedding to pull off and a murder to solve. Instead of wedding bells, she might be hearing wedding bullets, but she's determined to bring the bad guys to justice if it's the last thing she does . . . and this time, it just might be