I did get a sense of recognition when I started to read A Baker Street Wedding. Not that I had read any of the previous five books in this series. It's rather I think I've seen the first book in the library, read the blurb, but never borrowed it. Now, I want to hit myself in the head for not doing so because this book was hilarious.

Reading the latest book in a series, without having read the previous books mean that you can feel pretty lost. However, I quickly found my footing when it came to this book and the more I read the more I felt at home. Also, I really felt that I need to read the previous books.

Lawyers Reggie Heath and his brother Nigel are the ones responsible for answering the Sherlock Holmes letters that are sent to Baker Street. That's part of the deal for them to rent the place. In this book, the letter part gets a bit sidelined when Reggie's wedding to Laura turns into a dramatic paparazzi stunt. Nigel meanwhile has flown to LA to try to save his relationship. At the office is secretary Lois at a loss of what to do when a strange man shows up and starts to investigate where Reggie and Laura have gone.

I really enjoyed reading this book and I'm thrilled to have found the two first one available to listen to. I recommend this book to Sherlock Holmes fans!

I want to thank the publisher for providing me with a free copy through NetGalley for an honest review! ( )

I liked parts of this book and disliked other parts. I had picked it up with great excitement as it seemed like the perfect weekend book after a difficult week. Laura Rankin, glamorous actress, is marrying Reggie Heath, the elder of the “Baker Street Brothers”. In the Prologue, twenty years before, when Laura is at boarding school in Bodfyn Moor, she is a very sympathetic character. She then marries Reggie after a failed attempt to shake off the paparazzi, and flies off to the Bodfyn Moor supposedly for privacy. Later, during the honeymoon from hell, I grew to dislike her as she deceived, lied to, and manipulated her husband, in addition to becoming involved in a play that took up a lot of time that he wanted to spend with her. In truth, I think there was no need for most of that, she could have been vastly more straightforward; it would have been much less annoying both to Reggie and to me as the reader. But how would we get plots if people behaved sensibly or shared information or held normal conversations? Hundreds, thousands, of books and movies would be stillborn. I suspect that I am missing a lot of what was intended to be humor. I do that a lot.

My favorite part of the book was when Siger and Lois meet up and go in search of Laura and Reggie. Lois is the staff at Baker Street Chambers, and we met Siger, the violin-playing busker with a distinct resemblance to Sherlock Holmes in my favorite book so far of the series, The Baker Street Jurors. This part was both charming and exciting, and I look forward to meeting up with the two again. The intricate plotting here is tied to the people we met in the Prologue and in contemporary Bodfyn Moor. After this, Laura begins to redeem herself, displaying great devotion and heroism towards the long-suffering Reggie.

I hope Laura and Reggie went off for another honeymoon, after they recover. Maybe that's the next book, A Second Disastrous Baker Street Honeymoon. ( )

When Laura, a celebrated actress, decided to wed Reggie, an attorney made fun by the tabloid press, the owner of one of the worse of the tabloids decided he needed proof that the wedding took place. Before the paparazzi he sent to invade the wedding could get the proof needed, things went terribly wrong — the groom was pushed by one of the reporters and hit the wedding cake which tumbled over like a building in a 9.5 earthquake. Things went downhill from there. The bride and groom escaped the scene with the bride flying a single-engine plane away from the wedding even though she’d not flown a plane in over sixteen years and had no license. The groom was understandably not thrilled with the turn of events, the media mogul still didn’t have the proof he needed that the woman of his dreams was wedded, and the town of Bodfyn has new visitors.

The opening pages of this mystery are more like a keystone kops film with coincidences abounding and no mystery in sight other than why Laura chose to land the plane where she did. But wait there’s more….

This is the fifth book in the series, if you were to pick this book up not knowing it was part of a series, you’d probably enjoy it more than fans of the series do. It’s just quirky enough to be interesting and is well written. ( )