Maggie and Saint Just are back from England just in time to find out that a fellow writer has committed suicide…..or has he. It turns out it is murder and with dead rats showing up on other writer’s doorsteps, including Maggie’s, things are about to get crazy. Meanwhile, Sterling becomes a Santa for Silver in an effort to embrace the holiday spirit. And FINALLY, Maggie and Saint Just hook up. I mean it took ‘em long enough, but we’ll have to see where the relationship goes after this. This was another good mystery, but I don’t quite get why they have coined it with the title they did since we don’t even get to Xmas in this book and in fact barely touch on the holiday season. Ah well, who knows.
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In a move I don’t quite understand, Kensington Books changed Michaels’ Maggie series from hardcover to trade paper and then started renaming them titles like this current one. Maybe they have not been doing well or maybe they wanted to appeal more to the chick lit genre. I am not really sure, but it makes it rather confusing. I had read the first few a long time ago and just recently re-read the first one which made me want to read the rest in the series (which had not been out the last time I read the books). So in this current book, Maggie, writer extraordinaire, is off with Saint Just and Sterling to England to be on the set while a movie of her book is being made. There is, of course, a murder which Maggie and Saint Just end up solving together. What is intriguing about this series is that Saint Just is actually not real. He has sprung from Maggie’s head fully formed and is in actuality the main character from her mystery series. Maggie likes him, he likes her, but he could go poof at any moment so she doesn’t act on it. These are fun mysteries…I’m always surprised by who the killer is. The only thing I have a hard time with is the fact that they run across so many murders. I know that is the nature of mystery books, but it is so implausible. I think maybe that is why I don’t read too many mysteries.
