Review: You can only dodge the truth for so long....
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2014
Maggie Kean has all the charming attributes needed to become a lovely protagonist in many books yet to come.  At least I hope there are more to come, because Maggie has a lot of stories to tell, I'm sure.  Because she's an artist-type personality, she tends not to think or act in a straight line but rather she can jump from Point A to Point R in a matter of seconds.  And that can be confusing and/or annoying to folks (like Sam Villari) who are linear thinkers.This book is great fun.  It's an intriguing mystery with many parts--and many suspects.  I believe the character development is adequate to make the personalities individual enough so that the reader is able to differentiate them easily. Due to circumstances beyond my control I wasn't able to finish this book in just a few days, as I usually do, but every time I was able to pick it up, I remembered the characters right away and had no need to go back and find them.  That tells me the characters are drawn clearly enough to be memorable.There is warmth and humor galore in this book.  At times I laughed aloud in surprise and delight.  The dialog is crisp and funny and often revealing.  Maggie's internal dialogs are perfect for her slightly scattered personality and she tends to worry about the things most women worry about, at least some of the time.I really enjoyed reading this story and highly recommend it to anyone who likes a well-written, well-crafted mystery complete with good guys and bad guys, humor, passion, and even a few kinda steamy almost-love-scenes.