Overview
Mystery author Maggie Kelly had enough on her mind wondering how she was going to keep her fictional Regency Era creation from dropping to one knee with a marriage proposal. Then a murderer crosses the foul line-way too close to home.Another day, another crime scene.
Maggie wouldn't mind putting a little distance between herself and the hunky Regency hero of her novels, Alexandre Blake, the Viscount Saint Just, who has miraculously come to life with talk of sweeping her straight down the aisle. But now that her parents have split up, Maggie is having trouble resisting Alex's tender loving care. So she invites him along to visit her family. Unfortunately, they arrive just in time to watch her father being taken away in handcuffs as a murder suspect!
Thank goodness she has her very own romance hero.
The local police are convinced Evan Kelly has killed his bowling buddy, who happened to be having an affair with Maggie's mom. It doesn't help that Evan's bowling ball was found next to the dead body. Her dad may have had motive, but Maggie knows he's definitely no killer. Luckily, she has Alex riding to the rescue-and making her wonder if a happily ever after might not be out of her league after all.
Synopsis
Mystery author Maggie Kelly had enough on her mind wondering how she was going to keep her fictional Regency Era creation from dropping to one knee with a marriage proposal. Then a murderer crosses the foul line—way too close to home...
Maggie wouldn't mind putting a little distance between herself and the hunky Regency hero of her novels, Alexandre Blake, the Viscount Saint Just, who has miraculously come to life with talk of sweeping her straight down the aisle. But now that her parents have split up, Maggie is having trouble resisting Alex's tender loving care. So she invites him along to visit her family. Unfortunately, they arrive just in time to watch her father being taken away in handcuffs as a murder suspect! Luckily, she has Alex riding to the rescue—and making her wonder if a happily ever after might not be out of her league after all...
"Part fantasy, part romance, and part good old-fashioned mystery, this book has it all."—Romantic Times
Publishers Weekly
Agatha Christie meets Desperate Housewivesin Morgenroth's smashing, Stepfordesque mystery. At the heart of the novel is Manhattan bookshop clerk Sofie, whose father's death has left her wealthy and in need of a change of pace. Her husband suggests moving to posh Greenwich, Conn., where she falls in with a group of bored, bitchy and smart housewives who gossip, drink too much and occasionally cat around with each other's husbands. When young trophy wife Julia is found swinging from a tree in her front yard, the obvious conclusion is suicide-but both cops and neighbors suspect murder, and mystery addict Sofie sets out to do a little sleuthing. Morgenroth (Saved) places Sofie precisely in her contrasting urban and suburban settings with elegant prose, from "a tangle of dark grey branches" in Central Park to maple leaves that "drifted down-a bright autumn red-leaving a carpet on the ground like a huge pool of blood." The character development and local color are so strong that this would be a hit even without the dazzling surprise ending. (Jan.)
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Publishers Weekly
Agatha Christie meets Desperate Housewivesin Morgenroth's smashing, Stepfordesque mystery. At the heart of the novel is Manhattan bookshop clerk Sofie, whose father's death has left her wealthy and in need of a change of pace. Her husband suggests moving to posh Greenwich, Conn., where she falls in with a group of bored, bitchy and smart housewives who gossip, drink too much and occasionally cat around with each other's husbands. When young trophy wife Julia is found swinging from a tree in her front yard, the obvious conclusion is suicide-but both cops and neighbors suspect murder, and mystery addict Sofie sets out to do a little sleuthing. Morgenroth (Saved) places Sofie precisely in her contrasting urban and suburban settings with elegant prose, from "a tangle of dark grey branches" in Central Park to maple leaves that "drifted down-a bright autumn red-leaving a carpet on the ground like a huge pool of blood." The character development and local color are so strong that this would be a hit even without the dazzling surprise ending. (Jan.)
Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information