The Ménage à Trois is the third book in the Lora Weaver mystery series. Sixth story, if you also count the mini-mysteries.

Lora is settling into her life as a PI in training. This story opens as she is spying on a man suspected of insurance fraud at his bachelor party from inside a giant cake. The party - and the fake cake - take a spin for the worst when some men gate crash the party. When Lora crawles out of the cake all the party, except for the groom-to-be (Johnny) are gone.

Later, Lora finds a doll with a flash drive in her pocket. Left there by the Johnny when she went to check on him. When someone tries to kill the Johnny at the hospital and his sister hires Lora to find out who, Lora finds she investigating a lot more than insurance fraud. Particularly, when a local crime boss starts paying surprise visits to her home.

Her home, that also seems to be invaded by Tina, a pregnant and needy friend from her live in boyfriend Adam.

I loved this story. It’s the first I read in the series, but I want to read the rest of the series now too.

Lora is the sort of heroine I like in chick-lit, strong and a little bit insecure. So this is a chick-lit with a mystery. Two of my favourite genres and well-executed.

There is one thing I found annoying, though, and that's the amount of French Camile and Laurent used. I have colleagues who speak a second language during office hours and they don't constantly switch between two languages. It's very exhausting to constantly switch. It actually only makes sense if Camile and Laurent actually think in French and have to translate their own dialogue to English before they speak. Most ESL speakers (at least the proficiant ones) think in English. I think this would be the case for Camile and Laurent

I read a copy of this book through NetGalley.