Leon Craig

For better, for worse: Death Do Us by Ruthy Mason reviewed

From our UK edition

Bea should be elated: her sweet and loyal boyfriend Jake has just proposed, with the family ring, over dinner. Instead, she feels numb and distant, retreating into anthropological analysis of her new role as the bride-to-be. She soon discovers that Jake’s mother is poised to make the engaged couple a generous gift to help with wedding expenses, but it comes with an unspoken condition. Lorraine wants her pushy goddaughter Millie, Jake’s ex-girlfriend, included in the bridal party. Millie is all fake hair and barbed comments, beneath which a pulse of obsessive longing for Jake throbs audibly.