Gemma Halliday Undercover in High Heels

Undercover in High Heels

Gemma Halliday

Leisure, Sep 2007, $6.99

ISBN: 9780843958348

TV soap Magnolia Lane's wardrobe assistant Maddie Springer becomes jealous when she finds her boyfriend police detective Jack Ramirez with an amazon at the cabana Club after he broke a date with her. She confronts him leading to an incident in which guns are drawn and Isabel the amazon places Maddie in a hold that Hulk Hogan would be proud to have used. The aftermath is Ramirez is temporarily demoted to celebrity bodyguard duty as Isabel was providing evidence against her boyfriend, but instead has gone MIA.

To atone for her interfering with his assignment, Maddie enlists her best friend Dana to uncover the identity of who is sending threatening notes to the soap's star Mia Carletto. When Mia is found dead and Maddie begins to receive threatening notes, the case turns personal. However, as she and Dana dig for clues in spite of Ramirez profusely telling her to stay out of the investigation, tabloid reporter Feliz Dunn will do anything including risking the life of Maddie to get the story.

As always no one can get into more trouble in high heels faster than Maddie can as she leaps into one mess after another or causes the mess. Lighthearted inane fun, readers will appreciate the over the Hollywood Hills sign heroine's antics to make up for the turmoil she caused Ramirez by trying to solve the murder case chick lit style. This actually means causing more tsuris for Ramirez, who realistically has lost patience with Maddie.

Harriet Klausner