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Margo O'Banion has a job lots of people would envy - she edits the films of famed director Max Skull, who also happens to be her boyfriend. Max is beginning production on a movie version of a cult classic novel from the 1970s and asks Margo to accompany him to Guatemala where David Wong, the Director of Photography on the picture, will shoot B roll while Max scouts locations. Margo's having some trouble with one of her housemates over the cancellation of a rock video project and welcomes a change of scene. While David and Max are busy shooting deep in the jungle, Margo nearly gets lost in the lush undergrowth when she follows a figure she thinks must be Max, but isn't. The mysterious figure is only the beginning of a series of strange events, and Margo soon begins to receive rhymes written on index cards that threaten the production. Almost before she knows what is happening, Margo finds herself involved in the denouement of a story that began long ago in a far-away land. This is my first Margo O'Banion and it won't be my last. Kit Sloane has created an extremely likable every-woman sort of sleuth who is believable in every way. Sloane balances entertaining details about the inner workings of the film business with an intriguing mystery, and her eye for detail thrusts us into the story in an original and unobtrusive way. The only quarrel I had with the book is that the central conflict depends on a highly improbable coincidence, but I was able to suspend my disbelief and enjoy the story in spite of it. This is a quick and charming read that will keep movie buffs and cozy lovers happily entertained.
Reviewed by Carroll Johnson, October 2003
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