Spying in High Heels (A High Heels Mystery, #1)
L.A. shoe designer, Maddie Springer, lives her life by three rules: Fashion. Fashion. Fashion. But when she stumbles upon the work of a brutal killer, her life takes an unexpected turn from Manolos to murder. And things only get worse when her boyfriend disappears - along with $20 million in...
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L.A. shoe designer, Maddie Springer, lives her life by three rules: Fashion. Fashion. Fashion. But when she stumbles upon the work of a brutal killer, her life takes an unexpected turn from Manolos to murder. And things only get worse when her boyfriend disappears - along with $20 million in embezzled funds - and her every move is suddenly under scrutiny by the LAPD's sexiest cop. With the help of her post-menopausal bridezilla of a mother, a 300 pound psychic and one seriously oversexed best friend, Maddie finds herself stepping out of her stilettos and onto the trail of a murderer. But can she catch a killer before the killer catches up to her...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781467978040 (1467978043)
ASIN: 1467978043
Publish date: November 22nd 2011
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages no: 250
Edition language: English
Series: High Heels Mysteries (#1)
I had fun with this zany, screwball comedy, cozy mystery, chick lit, whatever book. The main character, Maddie Springer, is a fun mess. The book just works. Heck, an incipient love triangle was even handled by Maddie making an actual decision. Not sure what else to say without spoilers. I en...
Read for Booklikesopoly 250pages/$3.00 A very light and fluffy cozy mystery. Maddie Springer enjoys fashion, beauty rituals, and flashy men. That last part gets her into trouble - her boyfriend is skimming profits off his client who is embezzling money. When client and boyfriend go under, Maddie...
I was really in the mood for a funny piece. But this is so ridiculous and stupid. The heroine is really, really dumb. And obviously quite shallow and materialistic. She has her boyfriend of half a year missing and lusts after the detective. And she snoops into his salary info (the boyfriend's) and...
The name of the book, in fact the series, paints a picture of a very glamorous world as the setting of the plots. Our protagonist Maddie Springer lives in Los Angeles and is a shoe designer by profession. She is crazy about fashion and fits right into the industry. But her almost perfect world take...
3.5 stars, because the flirting was fun and cute. Still, I read somewhere that this is Gemma Halliday's first novel? It... kinda shows, sometimes - punctuation is the most obvious issue and some badly constructed sentences that made me ache from the bottom of my soul, but all in all a sweet little t...