Author(s): Madelyn Alt
Title: Home for a Spell
Publication: Kindle Edition
Pages: 304
Genre: cozy mystery
Acquisition: I literally have no idea. I must have preordered it, because I found it on my Kindle last night.
Date Completed: January 6, 2011
Rating: 4 stars out of 5
Maggie is still bound by the restrictions of her broken ankle, and her constant uncertainties about her personal relationships. When she discovers that Marcus may be putting off going back to college in order to take care of her (and that her best friend will be moving from the apartment house where they both live), she decides to be proactive and looks for a ground-floor apartment that will give her - and her boyfriend - more independence and autonomy. Sure, the manager of the "perfect" apartment is a huge skeeze, but one can't let the eebie jeebies get in the way of a great deal.
Of course, the body does put a damper on things.
Home for a Spell is easily the best book in the story so far. Alt balances Maggie's personal life with her magnetic attraction to all of the trouble in her neighborhood, and manages to develop both character relations and a mystery (a balance missing from previous books). If this book is any indicator I'd say that things are starting to look good for the next book or two.
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