Love You Madly

Listeners are drawn straight onto the busy set of the "Love of My Life" soap opera, the setting of Palmer's entertaining mystery series, starring head writer Morgan Tyler. There is more adventure off the set than on with a stalker pursuing the lead hunk, Tyler's own tangled romantic life, and a near fatal soap opera celebration in Vegas. Celeste Lawson manages the stretch from narcissistic stars to psychotic stalker with ease. Palmer loves tucking in historic, architectural, and other details, which Lawson conveys easily without losing the pace of the story. Even difficult scenes--from a cast member's battle with a kidney stone to Morgan's desert wanderings after a kidnapping--are plausibly played without excess. D.P.D. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine