Kasey Michaels High Heels and Homicide

High Heels and Homicide

Kasey Michaels

Kensington, Dec. 05, $14.00

ISBN: 0758208804

Popular historical mystery writer Maggie Kelly and an entourage to include Alex Blakely, better known to readers as Viscount Saint Just and his able assistant Sterling Balder, travel to England to observe the filming of her first novel. Maggie still struggles with Alex and Sterling being alive, since they are creatures of her imagination having starred in her mystery books until they somehow stepped out of novels and just showed up at her home (see MAGGIE NEEDS AN ALIBI).

When a torrential storm strikes, all power is lost including telephone lines and flooding, which leaves everyone stranded inside the Gothic-like Medwine Manor. Adding to the discomfit of the marooned, is that someone stole everyone's cell phone. Soon uneasiness turns to fright when a visitor is found hanging from a scaffold followed by another homicide. Alex believes he must uncover the identity of the killer, as that is what he is "programmed" to do; besides he feels he must keep Maggie safe.

HIGH HEELS AND HOMICIDE, the latest amusing Maggie mystery tale uses hyperbolic characterizations to lampoon several Hollywood stereotypes. The satirical spoof is very humorous as Alex and Sean struggle with the pompous I am the greatest attitudes that somewhat reminds them of the aristocracy from the settings of the novels that they come from. The lighthearted tale contains a fun who-done-it, but that ironically takes a back seat to the jocular interplay of the cast.

Harriet Klausner