Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews

This was just a quick fun murder mystery. Meg goes home for the summer to organize three weddings she’s participating in: her Mother’s, her brother Ron’s and her best friend Eileen’s. All three brides are totally nutsy: Meg and her sister don’t understand why their mother is getting re-married (they still don’t understand why she divorced their Dad), Eileen cannot commit to a theme (she eventually does Renaissance) and nobody likes Ron’s future wife Samantha.

Then the unfortunate happens - a murder right off the back doorstep of Meg’s mothers house. Meg’s Dad (a physician by trade, retired,) sets off to convince the local sheriff that this was indeed a homicide. As the days tick by, bridal parties are poisoned, brakes are tampered with, lives are threatened, peacocks have taken up residence in the neighborhood and Meg is falling in love with the towns most un-eligible bachelor, Michael, who happens to be gay.

While the final "who done it" was a bit rushed and implausible, the rest of the quirkiness of the characters makes up for it. Fun to read and I'll be looking to borrow the others in the series.