What you need to know about these books? You absolutely cannot start with number six. You have to read number one (Maggie Needs an Alibi) first. After that, go to town. Read what's handy. But you have to read it first.
Maggie is just your average, everyday, neurotic New York Times best selling Regency-Era romance writer living in New York when the series starts.
That is, until her hero, Alexandre Blake aka the Viscount Saint Just aka Alex Blakely, and his Watson-esque sidekick, Sterling Balder, show up on her doorstep.
In this sixth book, Maggie is going home for Christmas, but staying with her father in his bachelor pad while her mother's condo (only a block away) is taken over by siblings and their friends.
But when Maggie's dad is accused of killing a man, Maggie and Alex once again have to solve the crime and save the day (as they have for the last 5 books).
The great part about these books? Aside from being over the top and rather hilarious, they are almost a mete-novel. This book, in fact, has about 3 chapters devoted to the meta-novel. Talking about the killer, of course, and why he's doing what he's doing. It's fun, and funny, in a really odd way.
Anyway, as much as I'd love to say that it's perfect and amazing, it's not. I guessed the motive well into the book (though I thought someone else was the killer, apparently they at least had that right).
And...how did Maggie buy a 4 story house at such a "great price"? There has got to be a catch (and no new Maggie books on the horizon), I'm curious.
And this whole evolving thing? Weird. Though appreciative (because KM almost waited too long to get Alex and Maggie together) to see the characters grow, (a) the whole concept is weird and kind of hard to wrap your mind around (though, there is always "Stranger Than Fiction"), it's also (b) annoying to see how perfect Alex is. Grey hair is a mean (albeit fun) way to show him evolving.
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