This book came out in 2004, and it is actually the third book in a series. So, I am reading out of order here. The premise is rather bizarre. The main character, Maggie, is a writer of regency-era mystery novels. Two of her characters, Alex (the Viscount St. Just) and his sidekick, Sterling, have come to life. They help Maggie solve real-life mysteries.
In this case, they are trying to help Maggie's friend and publisher, Bernie Toland-James. Bernie's second husband has been missing for nearly seven years. He is about to be declared dead, after which Bernie can collect on his life insurance policy. But then one morning, Bernie wakes up next to her estranged husband's bloody corpse, with no memory of what had happened. Of course, she is the primary suspect in what looks like an open and shut case. Maggie and her book characters try to help her prove her innocence.
Meanwhile, they have other problems. Alex and Sterling are staying in the apartment across the hall from Maggie's, while that tenant, Mrs. Goldblum, visits her sister. There Sterling gets a strange visit from two large, threatening men who are very unhappy when they learn Mrs. Goldblum isn't there. They want something that is in her possession, but Sterling has no idea what. Things get worse from there. The apartment is vandalized and then Sterling is kidnapped.
Anyway, like I mentioned, the characters coming to life and all that is a little bizarre. However, the book is fun, light reading.
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