I complained in another review that excessive endearments bothered me. Here they're stupid. He calls Maxine things like huggy-buggy, kissems, cherry lips. Obviously, we're never meant to take Armand seriously. Don't forget that someone is trying to kill Maxine.
More incidents occur.
I wanted to find out who the culprit was, so I cheated and went to the final chapter. I truly do not have the temperament to read mysteries. After reading about two pages in that last chapter, I realized that I was missing too much. So I went back to where I had originally been, still not knowing the identity of the bad guy. I was with this story.