Tara's head is in the clouds. It is full of happy thoughts, wedding plans, and thinking about her handsome soon to be husband Nick Pratt. Life is good and almost normal for Special Agent Tara Holloway of the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigations Division and she let her guard down for a Sunday stoll. She had just finished addressing the last of her 138 wedding invitations that morning when Daffodil, her fiancé's dog, gives the signal she would love a walk. So, they are on their merry way to the mailbox. Suddenly, a truck starts up and heads right for them! Wham! Bang! Crash!

Daffodil saves Tara, but the invitations are not in such good shape. Instantly, Tara goes on full alert as she knows someone is out to get her. An unusual letter confirms that. Nick, also a Special Agent with the IRS and Lu, Tara's boss, agree with that assessment. But, who is behind this attack?

Due to her many successful investigations since Tara started with the IRS, Tara has too many possibilities for people who might not want her to live to say her wedding vows. Another mystery for Tara: How did they know about her wedding date anyway?

DEATH, TAXES, AND A SHOT GUN WEDDING is the twelfth book in Diane Kelly's series of mysteries involving the intrepid Tara Holloway. In the author's acknowledgements, Kelly indicates that DEATH, TAXES, AND A SHOT GUN WEDDING will be the final installment in the series. That is sad news, yet this latest in the series is truly an awesome grand finale as wonderful and explosive as any you will see in a fireworks display!

I have been a fan of the petite and fearless Tara and her quirky humour right from Kelly's first book, DEATH, TAXES, AND A FRENCH MANICURE. The writing in each installment is as fresh and lively with wiry asides as the first. I particularly enjoyed the way Kelly interweaves follow-ups and cases from the previous books as clues in the series as Tara attempts to figure out who is hellbent on ruining her big day in DEATH, TAXES, AND A SHOT GUN WEDDING. I am sure that Kelly's many fans will also relish revisiting the memories of the badass characters in the previous stories as well. Given that, this book can also be read as a stand-alone mystery and readers new to Kelly will then have the opportunity to have eleven previous books to go and read!

So, don't wait! Call for a ride to your nearest bookstore or order DEATH, TAXES, AND A SHOT GUN WEDDING online for a totally delightful laugh out loud read and just hope that Diane Kelly has another wonderful heroine up her writing sleeve! A tax treat you won't want to miss!

Book Summary

LOVE BEGINS—AND ENDS—WITH A BANG.

For IRS Special Agent Tara Holloway, this case is personal…

Wedding bells are ringing as Tara and her soon-to-be-husband Nick prepare for their big day. But along with all the RSVP cards are a series of death threats from an unknown source. The culprit must be someone from an earlier investigation—a white-collar criminal with a red-hot grudge—but Tara has run across too many lawbreakers to narrow down the search. And time, like her biological clock, is ticking.Now, while dodging attempts on her life, Tara also finds herself embroiled in a rental scam in which a heartless crook is ripping people off left and right. Will she be able to track down the con artist and make it down the aisle in one piece? Or will “til death do us part” come before Tara can even say “I do”?

“This series [is] a real winner.”—Fresh Fiction