The hubbub and bustle of opening the housing development and producing her play at Christietown, Cece's plans for her marriage to her fiance, detective Peter Gambino, and the baby shower for her daughter Annie, along with some conflicting inter-action with her ex-husband kept me laughing and turning the pages. The murder mystery, while always there in the background, almost takes second place to all the other threads of the plot, and to the joy of reading the vivid prose of Susan Kandel as she contrasts excerpts from Cece's in progress Agatha Christie biography with the ongoing search for a killer.

Christietown follows Shamus in the Green Room as number four in the series starring this exciting character, who wears vintage fashion and makes that her own standard of excellence. Kandel is definitely in a class of her own.