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The Bride Will Keep Her Name

A Novel

by Jan Goldstein
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Something borrowed. Something blue. Do you really know the man to whom you’re saying ‘I do?’

Madison Mandelbaum is on top of the world. She’s got a loving — though totally neurotic — family, two fabulous girlfriends, and best of all, she’s head-over-heels in love with Colin Darcy, an investigative reporter for NBC, a distant relation to the Queen, and–most importantly–Maddie’s fiancé. Be careful what you wish for her mother’s always fond of saying, but with Colin on her arm, Maddie is certain that everything will finally go right.
With one week to go before the wedding, Maddie receives an anonymous email that suggests that her fiancé may not be the man she thinks he is. Is this someone’s idea of a pre-wedding joke? Yet as sinister phone calls, text messages, and disturbing clues turn up, all linking Colin to the murder of a sexy callgirl, Maddie realizes that she must get to the bottom of this. Fast.
As the clock counts down towards what was to be the ceremony of her dreams, Maddie’s life is turned into a wild race to find the truth. Between frantic dress fittings, entertaining future in-laws, and putting on a brave face, she and her best friends are propelled into an undercover investigation that plunges them into a seedy underworld of anonymous sex and backroom politics.
As her search brings her ever closer to the knowledge she desperately seeks, Maddie finds her heart being tested in ways she’s never dreamed. Determined to take back her life, she discovers just how far someone in love will go to cover up the truth. And along the way, she stumbles upon a shocking secret she never saw coming.

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  • Release date

    June 16, 2009

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    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780307459909

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      • ISBN: 9780307459909
      • File size: 1960 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 20, 2009
      Goldstein (The Prince of Nantucket
      ) delivers up a mostly smooth-sailing novel of art, murder and politics. In one week, 20-something SoHo art gallery manager Madison Mandelbaum is getting married to the man of her dreams. Then an anonymous tipster begins leaving her disturbing messages about her fiancé, journalist and transplanted Brit Colin Darcy, who, apparently, does more than the investigative reporting for which he is quickly gaining fame. Colin, in fact, may have something bigger to hide than the call girl he was possibly seeing behind Madison's back. The hooker turns up dead and Colin is a likely suspect, though he swears he had nothing to do with it. Madison, however, has her doubts, and after catching Colin in some whopping lies and getting insider information from her assistant DA best friend, she determines to uncover the truth and save her wedding day. The backdrop of the final frenzy before a wedding makes this madcap romp zippy and fun, although Madison and her pals sometimes stretch credulity a smidge too thin.

    • Booklist

      June 1, 2009
      Madison Mandelbaum has never been happier. Its one week until her dream wedding to the impossibly gorgeous, smart, and British Colin Darcy, and nothing can dampen her happinessuntil she gets an anonymous e-mail suggesting that Colin knows a woman named Rebecca. As an investigative reporter for NBC, Colin digs up lots of dirt on lots of high-ranking people, and Rebecca was part of a sex crime investigation into the attorney general of New York that he was forced to shelve. Shortly after, Rebecca committed suicide. Madison believes Colins assurances but keeps receiving calls and e-mails that suggest Rebecca and Colin were more than just part of a news story, which makes herthink that her reporter may not be reporting everything about himself. Should she investigate further and find out if Colin has a secret, or leave it be and accept the blissful happiness she has found with him? Goldsteins third novel combines a satisfying love story with a tense mystery.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)

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