Bravo For The Bride

Bravo for the Bride (1995) by Elizabeth Eyre — Condition: Very Good (Crappy Old Books)

Elizabeth Eyre’s Bravo for the Bride (St. Martin’s Press, 1995, ISBN: 9780312117566) is not your average whodunit. It’s part of her delightfully witty Renaissance mystery series, set in 15th-century Italy, where poison is as common as perfume and the line between comedy and catastrophe is as thin as a silk veil. In this installment, a wedding should be the joyous highlight of the season—but of course the path to matrimony in Eyre’s world comes strewn not just with rose petals, but with corpses.

Eyre has a knack for weaving historical detail into page-turning plots, so you get double the pleasure: a front-row seat at an Italian wedding (complete with politics, family squabbles, and gossiping neighbors) and a juicy mystery that unravels with sly humor and genuine suspense. Think Boccaccio meets Agatha Christie, with a dash of Machiavelli for spice.

As for the copy: this one comes via Crappy Old Books, and it’s in Very Good condition. That means the cover is bright, the spine is upright, and the pages are clean and tight—no spilt wine, no suspicious dagger slits, no frosting smears from the wedding cake. It may show the faintest trace of shelfwear (a polite nudge rather than a battle scar), but otherwise it’s a volume that looks positively ready to throw confetti.

In short: Bravo for the Bride delivers murder, merriment, and matrimonial mayhem in equal measure. This copy, in Very Good condition, is just waiting for a reader who enjoys their mysteries with a Renaissance flourish. Another festive survivor from Crappy Old Books, where even weddings come with a body count.

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