Neptune King and the Newly Weds

This is the 11th book in the Neptune King series. In The Case of the Frantic Bride, the team are finally moving into their new office building. While they are busy unpacking, a distressed young woman comes in off the street desperate to hire them. She was married the previous day and now her husband has disappeared from the hotel where they were staying. Rachel, moved by her plight urges them to take her case despite not officially being open for business. It doesn’t take them long to make the connection between the missing man and a spate of robberies occurring at the hotel and at the homes of the hotel’s clients. They find the missing man in the nick of time and reunite him with his anxious bride. The Buck’s Night sees Shark celebrating his last days as a bachelor only to have his party ruined by a group of female thieves who steal their wallets and their trousers! With half the guests being policemen who have lost their police identity cards along with their wallets, Neptune and Shark undertake to retrieve the loot before Commissioner Talbot finds out and the policemen get in trouble. Trying to keep it low key, they let the thieves off with a warning, especially when they find out that they were stealing for a good cause. In The Case of the Foiled Wedding, they are retained by an insurance salesmen to ascertain if Maude Rice and her fiancé will definitely get married on the weekend as he father wants to insure her wedding against it not happening. Maude, it seems has a history of weddings being cancelled at the last minute and her father doesn’t want to lose any more money on her. Neptune and Shark interview the young couple and feel they’re genuinely committed to each other and tell the insurance salesman this, who agrees to take on the policy. On the weekend, Shark gets a call from the distraught groom telling him that Maude disappeared on her way to the wedding. They suspect an ex-boyfriend known for his temper and stalking tendencies. Trying to find the boyfriend is a whole other matter as time is running out for the hapless bride. In The Wedding, Shark finally gets married, but not without a few minor hitches beforehand, and just when he thinks he can relax on his honeymoon, he gets involved in investigating the murder of one of the hotel guests staying at the same hotel in Hawaii, after the wife of the deceased befriends Becky. Shark soon learns that this is not the way to please a new wife and has to think fast and spend more money to make things right again.