Bernie and Libby Simmons own a bakery called A Little Taste of Heaven, which used to be their late mother's. They're successful at it, and they live upstairs in an apartment along with their retired police chief father, Sean. One day at work, their employee Googie asks if they'd be willing to cater a dog wedding for his girlfriend Jennie's golden retrievers, Bertha and Ernie. Happy to do it, they want to see the space they'll be using.

Jennie is excited, but not about the fact that her business neighbor Rachel is trying to get rid of her any way she can. It's starting to cause problems, and unfortunately, Bernie and Libby are sucked right into the middle of it. Especially when Jennie's contractor, Tom Bannon, is found murdered and Jennie is the main suspect. When the women, along with the florist and photographer, begin to receive harassing messages, they vow to stick with it, even against the new police chief's threats. But when there's another murder, they're on a time limit to find a killer...who will have no qualms about killing again...

This is the seventeenth book in the series, and I have read most of them, and all of the latest. I have mixed feelings about this book (and I believe I mentioned it in other books as well). Bernie and Libby are apparently in their thirties, but they argue like teenagers. Which makes the next thing I mention make perfect sense: They have 'beaus' who apparently aren't really so. They never go on dates, never spend any time with them except at the local bar where Bernie's boyfriend Brandon is a bartender, or anything to do with a murder. I would have thought that their relationships would have progressed at this point. No talking about moving in together? Getting married? Are they going to be two old spinsters who own the local bakery? I know this doesn't bother others, but I like to see progression in mysteries. These have none.

I also don't really care for the cringe-worthy fact that they have no problem just going into someone's home and poking around. It might not be breaking and entering, but it's the next best thing to it. Surely there are other ways to get the information they crave. But other than the things I've mentioned above, I did enjoy the book. Enough that I would gladly read the next in the series. There's no doubt that they can figure out who the murderer is (almost a little too late, but that is also so in other series, so no big deal here). The ending was interesting, and the way it played out. I do like their father Sean and his friend Clyde quite a bit, and look forward to them being in each book.

The mystery was done well, as were the clues, and the time it took to solve it was no more than it should have been. Again, I enjoyed reading this book and look forward to the next by Ms. Crawford. Some of the recipes sounded yummy also and I may very well try them.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher and NetGalley but this in no way influenced my review.

Light cozy mystery that'll have you rooting for the sisters again as they solve yet another mystery. Lots of characters to wade through. A quick read that'll pass the time.

I was given a complimentary copy of this book.
All opinions expressed are my own.

This is the first book I have read in this series but I will definitely go back and start at the beginning. I really like the characters Libby and Bernie and the plot was entertaining. I loved the Dad too.
Many thanks to Kensington Books and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I wanted to love this book but I just couldn't get all the way through it. The writing style wasn't for me and I found the author used outdated viewpoints. Also, there were too many supporting characters which made the story confusing.

Catering sisters, Bernie and Libby decide to host a doggie wedding for their friends' four legged creatures. However some people in town are not happy about this and start sending threatening messages to cancel. Worse, people start dying.

Bernie and Libby want to salvage their gig and their business and are determined to find out who is behind the threats and murders.

This adorable little cozy hides a sinister vibe. The characters are charming and the plot is ridiculously cute. Who doesn't love a doggie wedding. I just loved the twists here and there. It really caught my attention. I definitely will be reading the rest in this wonderfully light hearted mystery.Give it a try.

Another charming book starring Bernie and Libby Simmons. Their bakery A Taste of Heavy is catering a dog wedding in this book, but as usual they have to investigate a murder or two. Their dad, former police chief of Longley, helps them out.
The characters are predictably quirky and the plot is fun. The only thing that annoyed me was the repetition, I felt like sometimes the dialogue was just filler.
I liked it, 3.5 stars.

A Catered Doggie Wedding
Libby and Bernie, sisters, business partners, and amateur sleuths, receive the most unusual catering request yet, a doggie daycare wedding. Surely you are intrigued…if not, you will be as you are drawn into this story right away by the viciousness and lengths that an unknown assailant goes to get the event canceled. If the assailant thinks that Libby and are going to scared off, they are very wrong, in fact, I think it spurs them on even more to get to the bottom of things. The sisters have a great relationship which is evident in the quality and type of banter that they regularly engage in during conversations and brainstorming. Did I mention recipes, such as Pears Poached in Red Wine or Mango, Avocado and Shrimp Salad.

Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons own A Little Taste of Heaven, a small coffee shop that does occasional catering. Their counterman Googie wants them to cater a 'doggie wedding' as a grand opening for his girlfriend's new business. With a local florist and local photographer on board, the wedding was expected to be a good time for all. That is until a neighboring business started complaining and people started dying. The sisters, with the help of their dad needed to figure out why all the fuss about a doggie day care business.

This is the first book in this series that I've read. I really liked the characters and it was a good storyline. Unfortunately there were a lot of slow parts. Not being an author, I don't know how to fix this but I'm sure there's a way. I'd like to read more with these characters.
The recipes at the end are a nice addition

Although I have been a fan of the “A Mystery With Recipes” series through the years, A Catered Doggie Wedding was not one of my favorites. Don’t get me wrong, I adore Bernie and Libby, and their father is the best character in the series, but this story just didn’t grab my attention and keep it. When Bernie and Libby accept a job to cater a dog wedding, they think it will be a fun event or a hairy one depending on how it goes. When they start receiving threats to cancel their involvement, and someone is killed, they rethink their position but decide not to give up. Suspects are plentiful, a little too plentiful, and the evidence abundant and confusing.

Having a dog wedding has become a fashionable event for some people, and some caterers might find it almost irresistible to cater this type of party; most, however, would likely steer clear of anything that could cause their clients, or the health department, to question their business practices. Bernie and Libby don’t pay attention to such matters, or any others for that matter. Investigating and sticking their nose in is what they do best besides cooking, even when it has nothing to do with them. No matter how often they are told to stay out of police business, they plow their way through whichever direction they feel they want regardless of evidence or people's privacy.

The characters in this book, including a dog or two, and the series, are usually fun and make readers laugh. Bernie and Libby are one of a kind and might even be a bit too old-fashioned for today's modern world. They cater all sorts of events, and the recipes all sound delicious. They still live with their father, and even though they are well past the age when they need to do everything their parent tells them to, they generally allow their father to dictate much of their daily actions. The other characters in this series are interesting, and readers will like many of them, especially their father. They could use a change of setting, but readers get a good idea of what the town and their home look like.

In this installment to the series, I have to say that Bernie and Libby might want to rethink their business. It's fine to cater a dog wedding, but I wouldn’t want them to make a habit of it. The victim isn’t at all likable, and no one will be surprised when he is killed. The main suspect is expected and clearly has a motive, as do all the suspects. Unfortunately, the pacing in this book is a bit too slow. The evidence is far too easy to follow; however, the ending and the killer are simply not believable. I would like to see Bernie and Libby grow, but so far, they have avoided any growth over several of the latest books, and this is causing a problem on where to go with the series. I hope that A Catered Doggie Wedding isn’t the last book in this series as that would be disappointing, but I think it's time to change things and bring Bernie and Libby into the 21st century. Hopefully, they won’t cater more dog weddings in future volumes.

Princess Fuzzypants here: Bernie and Libby’s employee asks them to cater an event his girlfriend is throwing to celebrate the opening of her doggy day care. Jenny’s two golden retrievers will be the bride and groom but it looks like there are people who want to prevent the wedding and the opening. The most obvious one is the woman who owns a very posh dress shop who thinks a doggy day care will bring down the tenor of the plaza. While she clearly does not like the dogs, both Libby and Bernie suspect there is more to it.

When two murders occur and Jenny is seen as the prime suspect, the ladies get their father and his police friends to help them investigate. It was a bit of a dog’s breakfast with a large cast of characters and plenty of red herrings to muddy up the water. There were so many moving pieces, the real story, ergo the real villains, are not revealed until the end. And it turned out to be quite a complicated mixture. And of course, as is always the case with this series, the two sisters bicker their way through the entire story. Not my favourite of the series so I am giving it four purrs and one paw up.

Why would anyone commit murder to cancel a doggie wedding?

Bernie and Libby Simmons are catering a doggie wedding with over 100 guests, prior to the opening of the client’s dog daycare center, Woof Woof. But there are obstacles. The drama queen owner of the high-end dress shop next door does not want Woof Woof to open because it will hurt her business. There are threatening emails and notes sent to the Simmons sisters and to other people in town, to get them to cancel the wedding. Tires are slashed. People are killed. Why would anyone want a doggie wedding to be canceled? It doesn’t make sense.

The Simmons sisters go to great lengths to discover what is going on. Every time they turn around, there is someone else they need to investigate. Their diligent, sometimes harrowing, efforts pay off.

The books in this series can be read as standalones. That’s how I started off, with the Christmas-related titles. After reading a few of them, I returned to reading the series in order, since I liked it and had grown fond of the recurring characters.

I recommend this book because it has an interesting and complex plot, and because I like the series very much.

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Books for the Advance Digital Reading Copy. They want my honest review, and that’s what this is.

This is the seventeenth book in a series by Isis Crawford and my second.

Catering sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons are asked by their twenty-four-year-old counterman, Googie to cater a doggie wedding so they are providing the goodies for golden retrievers, Bertha and Erni owned by Jennie, Googie's girlfriend, as well as their canine guests and folks. But then bodies begin dropping...

Although I have been exceptionally late to the party in Isis Crawford's 'A Mystery with Recipes' series, I still found A Catered Doggie Wedding an enthralling, fun read. I loved the parts of the story that were set in A Little Taste of Heaven, the sisters' catering business. The character development is excellent, the plotline is well done and I was turning the pages late into the night. A humourous, compelling story of mystery and mayhem that has inspired me to read some of the other instalments.

I received a complimentary copy of this novel, at my own request, from Kensington Books via NetGalley. This review is my own unbiased opinion.

Bernie and Libby have been asked to cater a doggie wedding, the cat wedding they were in charge of didn't go so well making the ladies hesitant to do a dog wedding. They end up agreeing to cater it because their counterman Googie is the one who asked for the favor. Googie's girlfriend Jenni is opening a doggie daycare and hopes a wedding for the grand opening will really be the business going. Soon all the people involved in the wedding start receiving threats. Bernie and Libby start looking into who is behind the threats when someone is murdered. Now its serious, the ladies must figure out who is behind it all before they end up murdered themselves. Can they put all the.pieces together before someone else dies?

Another fun and lots of the time funny adventure with Libby and Bernie! Those two never disappoint in how they just crack me up with their crazy banter, and the banter among other characters is always priceless and sometimes great comic relief! I just love their dad and I get such a kick out of Clyde, his police friend who slips them info sometimes in exchange for food and yummy baked items his wife won't let him have, lol.

This was one twisty mystery with more suspects and red herrings as it progressed, not to mention more bodies. What started the whole things was kinda cool as Libby and Bernie found out later...but meeting up with a killer wasn't so cool. Reinforcements came just in time though, and the dog wedding was saved from being scrapped. I was happy that everyone who wasn't a killer but might've done something they'd regret ended up having to account for that.

Everything was wrapped up and explained at the end and of course, one of the goldens, Bertha or Ernie or maybe one of the doggie guests stole the last funny scene.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC of this book provided by Kensington Cozies via NetGalley, and my opinions are my own.

When a new doggy daycare is about to open the owner decides to commemorate the opening with a doggie wedding. Enter full time restauranteur/ catering sisters Libby and Bernie,who along with a photographer and florist the wedding grand opening plans are set to open with a splash. Someone out there doesn't want this to happen and soon threats and vandalism stress that they are serious. Then a murder takes place and the sisters set out to solve the crime and keep the wedding and opening on schedule.

Latest entry in the long running series by Iris Crawford does not disappoint. I like both the quirky sisters and their ex- policeman father, who both encourages and helps rein in the sometimes over enthusiastic sleuthing pair. A solid 4star read on goodreads.
I received this book free from #netgalley for a fair and honest review.

A Catered Doggie Wedding By Isis Crawford is book #17 in the Mystery with Recipes series. Bernie and Libby Simmons get involved with solving another murder when Googie, their counterman at their business, A Little Taste of Heaven and his girlfriend Jennie ask them for their help when Jennie is suspected of murder. This case gets complicated and Bernie and Libby really have to do a lot of sleuthing to solve it. I like the two main characters, Bernie and Libby. I find their bantering and bickering back and forth quite entertaining. This was a fun whodunit to read and I am looking forward to the next book in the series.

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC for an exchange for an honest review.

Excellent and fun read. Loved it.

This was a fun summer book to read. I enjoyed it, although I was definitely surprised by the ending. I don't know if I missed some of the clues, but I sort of felt like there were some vital clues left out. I guess that makes it more like real life.

Who doesn't want the doggie wedding between two golden retrievers to go forward? Or, is someone really upset about the new doggie day care? That's the question sisters Bernie and Libby, who have agreed to cater the party, must answer because now someone's not only sending them nasty notes, there's been a murder! It's a classic cozy with two sisters and their dad, a retired law enforcement officer, finding not only the villain but the reasoning behind the crime. Although this is the latest in a series, it should be fine as a standalone. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. It's a classic cozy with enough red herrings to keep you guessing.