Maggie Kelly series bks 1-4 - Kasey Michaels torrent

Category: Humor
Language: English
Keywords: Mystery Romance
Written by Kasey Michaels
Format: MP3
Unabridged

Maggie Kelly
1. Maggie Needs an Alibi (2002)
In this comic mystery Maggie, a mystery writer, finds herself up to her neck in trouble. She discovers that the “fictional” character that made her a bestselling author is hanging out at her apartment, and meantime a couple of her colleagues meet very untimely deaths.

2. Maggie by the Book (2003)
Maggie is fired from her job writing historical romances and is resilient enough to reinvent herself as a mystery author. But then, her own invention - a seductive Englishman, by the name of Alexander Drake - turns up in the flesh in the middle of her apartment, complete with sidekick.

3. Maggie Without a Clue (2004)

From Publishers Weekly
Romance bestseller Michaels delivers more fantasy and fun in her third witty, well-plotted cozy (after 2003’s Maggie by the Book) to feature Maggie Kelly, a former author of historical romances who now writes historical mysteries. When Maggie’s editor, Bernice Toland-James, awakens in bed to find herself covered in blood and next to the dead body of her ex-husband, Benny, whom she assumed drowned almost seven years before, she phones Maggie in hysterics. Accompanied by her own fictional creation—Alex Blake, Viscount Saint Just, the tall, handsome, astute and somewhat arrogant Regency detective—Maggie rushes to the rescue. Having two quirky characters, Saint Just and his sidekick Sterling Balder, enter the real world and help Maggie solve mysteries lends an amusing metafictional twist to the series. (At the start, Saint Just points out to Maggie the favorable press on “their” latest novel on Amazon.com: “A starred review from Publishers Weekly, a quite flattering review from Booklist, and Kirkus was its usual damning-with-faint-praise self.”) Meanwhile, somebody breaks in and ransacks Saint Just and Sterling’s newly sublet apartment. Further complications ensue as Maggie tries to balance her attraction to Saint Just with her relationship with NYPD Lieutenant Steve Wendell, while Saint Just discovers feelings and thoughts not written into his original character. A surprising conclusion will leave readers wanting more.

4. High Heels and Homicide (2005)

When mystery author Maggie Kelly heads across the pond for a movie shoot–accompanied by her once-fictional, now all-too-real (not to mention sexy) hero, Alexandre, Viscount Saint Just–she can only hope for a jolly good time. And that’s exactly what she gets–if “jolly good” is Britspeak for “totally crazy”…

We are not amused… Don’t get me wrong–there was plenty to laugh about when we first arrived in Merry Olde England to watch one of my novels being shot as a major motion picture. Alex was delighted with the location (a seventeeth-century manor house), but horrified with the surfer-dude mimbo playing him. I, personally, found the situation hilarious…then the leading lady started rubbing up against “my” hero, leaving me no choice but to start a little flirtation of my own with the lord of the manor’s nephew. It was all very Regency House Party until the scriptwriter showed up…dead.

Lights, camera…action! No, not that kind of action. Well, maybe a little… Okay, so things are suddenly getting hot and heavy between Alex and me–and our timing is atrocious as usual, what with the murder and mayhem. Suspects? Don’t get me started. There’s Mr. Contemptuous Director, Ms. Man-Crazy Production Assistant, Mr. Fancy Pants English Actor, Ms. Diva Leading Lady, and…yours truly. Yep, I was seen arguing with the victim right before his unfortunate demise, so I am, as the Brits would say, in a bit of a pickle…

It was a dark and stormy night… No, seriously. Some truly nasty English weather has flooded the property, cutting off the power as well as access to the roads. Plus, someone’s stolen all the cell phones. Oh, there’s also that second body we just found. And did I mention the ghost? Mm-hmm–the place is haunted. You know, it wasn’t too long ago that a scenario like this would have had me reaching for a cigarette. Now, it just has me reaching for Alex…