The Last One at the Wedding is not really a thriller. It is a mystery and at times a little scary. A young woman disappeared and there is definitely something fishy about the entire Gardner family, and then the night before the wedding of the century, one of the guests is found dead. The novel is also a powerful, and sad story of wealth, greed, and corruption and of a father who seems at times to be naïve and sheltered but who loves his daughter no matter what and who tries to do the right thing as he has done for all of his life.