Crafts and Life

When Maddie Springer—shoe designer turned amateur sleuth—tags along with her mother to the Antiques Extravaganza road show, the last thing she expects to have to do is pull her mom off of a celebrity appraiser after he calls her prized antique hatpin a phony. But things go from harried to homicide when the same appraiser is found dead just moments later—killed by Mom's hatpin! Now not even Maddie's husband, LAPD Detective Jack Ramirez, can save Mom as the force's two most bumbling detectives are assigned to the case.

As if Maddie doesn't have enough on her plate, her best friends, Dana and Marco, enlist her help to plan the most over-the-top Hollywood surprise party ever for Dana's fiancé (who has a little surprise of his own up his sleeve), Maddie's adorable twin toddlers are always up to no good, and the only thing that can calm her fashion-challenged and suddenly-a-suspect mom down are aura cleansing from her favorite Venice Beach psychic, Mrs. Rosenblatt. Whether they help or hurt, Maddie's friends assist her in wading through a slew of murder suspects—none of whom are telling the truth and all of whom have ample motive to want the appraiser dead. Was it the frigid business partner with questionable ethics? The clown-collecting fan-turned-stalker? The auction house owner with a grudge? Or was the appraiser's real business something much more sinister than his TV personality let on…and much more deadly? Maddie and her eccentric gang of unlikely sleuths are under the gun to find out before the real killer strikes again…and Mom takes the fall!

An Interview With A Character

What is your full name?

Madison Louise Springer, but my friends call me Maddie. 

What is your Profession?

I've always wanted to be in fashion, but I had to start at the bottom—designing children's shoes for Tot Trots.  (The spring 2015 Spiderman Flip Flops? Yeah, those were totally mine.) However, through a lot of hard work and a few strokes of good luck, I've finally got my own line of fabulous high heels being sold by boutiques from the OC to Beverly Hills. 

What is your current favourite book or movie?

Anything rom com or featuring really fabulous women kicking bad guy booty.

What is your go to comfort book or movie?

If I've had a really bad day, Meg Ryan makes it all better… especially when she's falling in love with Tom Hanks. (Best enjoyed with a pint of Ben and Jerry's.)

If someone was to play you in a movie who would it be? OR what would be the character you would want to be in a book?

I've always envision myself as a sort of grown up Elle Woods, so I'd have to pick Reese Witherspoon. 

What is your ideal evening?

A few years ago my answer might have been a night on the town with my best friend and Hollywood actress, Dana, but these days, it's more like ordering a gooey pizza, enjoying a glass of Rosé, and having family movie night with my twin toddlers… followed by some adult snuggle time with my hot man, Detective Jack Ramirez. 

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