Love You Madly: A Daytime Mystery (Library Edition) [Audio CD]

Linda Palmer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 2006 | Series: Library Edition

As head writer of the soap opera Love of My Life, Morgan specializes in imperiling her characters. As co-executive producer on the show, she must protect the actors playing them. But when leading man Link Ramsey finds himself stalked by a woman who can’t separate fact from fiction, Morgan’s job is about to get more complicated.

Soon Link’s apartment is ransacked—and Morgan discovers someone is following her, too. Threats multiply as the cast and crew prepare for a promotional trip to Las Vegas. Now—while she’s coping with some new plot twists in her personal life as well—Morgan has to keep the danger strictly onscreen, where it belongs.

Editorial Reviews

From AudioFile

Listeners are drawn straight onto the busy set of the "Love of My Life" soap opera, the setting of Palmer's entertaining mystery series, starring head writer Morgan Tyler. There is more adventure off the set than on with a stalker pursuing the lead hunk, Tyler's own tangled romantic life, and a near fatal soap opera celebration in Vegas. Celeste Lawson manages the stretch from narcissistic stars to psychotic stalker with ease. Palmer loves tucking in historic, architectural, and other details, which Lawson conveys easily without losing the pace of the story. Even difficult scenes--from a cast member's battle with a kidney stone to Morgan's desert wanderings after a kidnapping--are plausibly played without excess. D.P.D. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.; Unabridged edition (May 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786170832
• ISBN-13: 978-0786170838
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,745,383 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great series, but I think I liked the first two books better, July 18, 2006

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M. C. Crammer (Decatur, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Love You Madly (Daytime Mysteries) (Paperback)

I don't know why, because this was very well plotted and entertaining. I think perhaps that as the third in the series, the novelty is wearing off for me.

This series has as its detective-heroine Morgan Tyler, a producer-writer of a hit soap opera -- scratch that -- daytime drama. One of the leads has a problem: he's being stalked by a woman who thinks she is married to him. Morgan feels responsible for her stars since if anything happened to them she'd have a serious production problem. So she gets involved in trying to protect him from this women, although he refuses to involve the police. In the process of dealing with this woman, she ends up going to see someone who not long afterwards ends up the victim of foul play. Although one of her boyfriends, a homicide detective, warns her away from involvement, she IS involved, particularly when a murder attempt is made a few days later on someone else involved with the show.

The quick pace, entertaining behind-the-scenes-in-daytime-drama setting, and likeable main character (Morgan) make for a quick and enjoyable read. This is not Elizabeth George, however --like the dramas this author writes about, the emphasis is on entertainment, not high literary or artistic value. I intend to continue reading the series with pleasure, because sometimes I just want to be entertained!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Real Page Turner, May 31, 2006

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Carolyn Fox (Hollywood, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Love You Madly (Daytime Mysteries) (Paperback)

"Love You Madly" is absolutely the best in the series so far. Linda Palmer has created great characters, and set them in a real page turner of a mystery novel.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE IT SUPREMELY, August 8, 2006

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Mister E (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love You Madly (Daytime Mysteries) (Paperback)

Soaps, Stars and now with this latest in the series ... Stalkers!

How does Linda Palmer do it? One could say ... "it's a mystery."

There's a pitfall inherent in series mysteries--how to continue to spin new plots, keeping the audience guessing, intrigued and involved. Hats off to you, Ms. Palmer, who has done a superb job in this, the third of the series.

I thought I was sufficiently charmed by Soap ... er, sorry, Daytime Drama Producer Morgan in the first two books. But the latest plotlines in "Love You Madly" are true delight: Best friend Nancy's wrangle with a horrid soon-to-be stepdaughter; three fabulous men all begging for Morgan's favors (excuse me? Three? In this day and age? Ms. Palmer might be accused of adding an element of fantasy!); the soap star with a mysterious past, completely different than Book #2, "Love Her to Death," and of course, the crazed stalker replete with her own twisted relative. The pacing, plot twists and well-drawn characters just keep getting better.

Loved #1 and #2. As for this Book #3, "Love You Madly": Loved it ... supremely.

Can't wait for #4!