High Heels and Holidays

September 11, 2006
Mystery writer and amateur sleuth Maggie Kelly gets an unseasonable Christmas package in her fifth outing (after 2005's High Heels and Homicide
), a blithe mix of romantic fantasy and whodunit plotting. With the help of the Viscount Saint Just (her fictional Regency Era creation miraculously come to life as a handsome, protective suitor), her ex-boyfriend, NYPD detective Steve Wendell, and her publisher, Bernice Toland-James, Maggie figures out she's not the only mystery writer to receive a dead rat and death threat in the mail. Maggie wonders about a recently deceased colleague, an apparent suicide, and her suspicion becomes alarm when another writer turns up murdered. Maggie's wit and Saint Just's antics will raise the holiday spirits of Michaels's fans.

October 15, 2006
Mystery author Maggie Kelly (High Heels and Homicide) and her once fictional, now real boyfriend Viscount Saint Just deal with some very bad fan mailthreats have been sent to authors who contributed to a mystery anthology, and Maggie is next on the list. Best-selling romance author Michaels (Everything Is Coming Up Rosie) has a following, but readers who are not already familiar with the quirky characters will not find this the best entryway into the series. Strictly for libraries owning other titles in the Maggie Kelly series.

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