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Morgan Tyler, writer for the soap opera Love of My Life has been promoted since the events of the first book, LOVE IS MURDER. As the new co-executive producer of the show, it is her job to oversee the storylines and keep both staff and executives happy. It's not an easy job. A new executive wants to fire a popular actress for gaining weight and get her boy-toy actor a permanent, prominent role. The overweight actress is desperate to keep her job. And the main star of the show, Cybelle Carter, is just plain desperate. She runs into Morgan's office to confess breathlessly that she was once married and is now on the run from her husband. Cybelle claims that her ex is insane and wants to kill her. Morgan believes her until she meets the devastatingly sexy Phillippe, who claims that he doesn't want Cybelle's life at all. He just wants to get a legal divorce -- and to reclaim the valuables that Cybelle took when she ran. Caught in the middle, Morgan doesn't know who to believe in this real-life soap story. Someone's obviously trying to kill someone; that's how Cybelle's stuntwoman ended up poisoned in her apartment. But who, and why, and which member of the feuding couple is lying to Morgan? LOVE HER TO DEATH is a cute piffle of a book; the characters are fun and the situations are suitably soap-operaish. Nothing wrong with that, considering the immense popularity and longevity of soaps! The mystery takes a bit of a back seat to the characterization and the assorted relationships, but the puzzle in the book is solid. Indeed, only one thing keeps me from raving about what silly fun it is. All the characters rang true to me as people except for the uber-everything Phillippe. The mysteriously wealthy, probably dangerous, supremely sexy man might have stepped right out of the standard daytime drama storyline, but he doesn't quite work when pulled into what's passing itself off as the real world. If you can raise your disbelief high enough to clear that hurdle, LOVE HER TO DEATH would be an amusing, light read, best enjoyed in the bubblebath with a couple of candles and a glass of white wine.
Reviewed by Linnea Dodson, September 2005
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