How To Host A Killer Party

by Penny Warner

Series: A Party-Planning Mystery (1)

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML: Don't let murder crash your party. Presley Parker was just happy to get her party planning business off the ground. Now she's gotten the gig of the year, planning Mayor Davin Green's sumptuous "surprise" wedding for his socialite fiancée, to be held on Alcatraz. But when the bride is found floating in the bay and the original party planner is found murdered, Presley becomes the prime suspect. If the attractive crime scene cleaner, Brad Matthews, doesn't help her tidy her reputation, she'll be exchanging her formal wear for prison stripes...… (more)

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cougargirl1967 | Aug 3, 2013 |

I figured I could use some light, fun reading among all the ghost/dystopian books I've been reading, but I reeeeally picked wrong this time. I don't take my popcorn books as seriously as the others I read, so I give them a lot of leeway. But I got about halfway through How to Host a Killer Party and realized I didn't care about what was going on. It was cute, sure, and Presley Parker is a fun protagonist, but this is a case of the book just not being for me. (

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strongpieces | Jan 20, 2012 |

Presley Parker is a newby party-planner in San Francisco. She has landed the party of a life-time, a "surprise wedding" for the Mayor on Alcatraz. But Pres finds herself in the middle of a mystery when the original party planner and the bride both end up murdered. As the chief suspect, Pres is determined to clear her name by finding the real killer.

This is a nice start to a new series. Pres and the cast of characters are well drawn and I could practically see them. The budding romance has potential. And Pres has a way of getting into trouble that is sort of endearing. (

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TheLibraryhag | Apr 10, 2010 |

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How To Host A Killer Party

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San Francisco, California, USA

Alcatraz Prison, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California, USA

Treasure Island, California, USA

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"The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during parties." -- Carol Matthau

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Through the thick morning veil of San Francisco fog, all I could make out from the ferryboat deck was the eerie silhouette of an island.

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Hart, Carolyn

Ryan, Hank Phillippi

Swanson, Denise

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:

Don't let murder crash your party.

Presley Parker was just happy to get her party planning business off the ground. Now she's gotten the gig of the year, planning Mayor Davin Green's sumptuous "surprise" wedding for his socialite fiancée, to be held on Alcatraz.

But when the bride is found floating in the bay and the original party planner is found murdered, Presley becomes the prime suspect. If the attractive crime scene cleaner, Brad Matthews, doesn't help her tidy her reputation, she'll be exchanging her formal wear for prison stripes...

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