Big Crime — Alex A. King

Kat sidesteps authority, flips off disaster, argues with nuns, and eats too much pie in the newest entry in the Kat Makris series. The Kat Makris series is part Godfather, part Stephanie Plum, and all-well, mostly-Greek.For one perfect day, everything is going to plan in Kat Makris' life. The groom has a pimple, but she penciled pre-wedding drama into her schedule. The bride has her own pimple; but again, it's all in the schedule. Kat even accounted for the time she's planning to spend ignoring Xander, the hot henchman-slash-secret agent, after their disastrous rendezvous in Portland.Before the wedding reception is over, and Kat has successfully dodged all the questions about what happened in Portland, her perfect day turns into a nightmare. It starts with the dying man in the subterranean tunnels beneath the family compound, and escalates when a device encircling his neck explodes. Voila! Instant decapitation.Turns out the mystery man is not the only one who has lost his head recently. A spate of similar decapitations around the world lead Kat to discover a pattern to the murders. But before she can investigate, she's thrown into a van with a gang of crazy Kiwis, who hook her up with her own exploding collar and specific orders: locate the painting of the Seven Sisters, or it's bye-bye Kat.