Location Location

Margot O'Banion Mysteries #6

by Kit Sloane

Location Location takes film editor Margot O'Banion and director Max Skull head to Panama to make their first independent film. Accompanying them are a celebrated movie star, a guide from the spiritual sect he has embraced, his powerhouse agent intent on separating him from this sect, two British financiers, and a burgeoning legion of would-be money-men bent on getting in on the action. Filmmaking takes second place on the set as the players scramble for position in a murderous game of multiple upmanship.

234 pages, Paperback

First published February 25, 2007

About the author

KIT SLOANE ....A GRADUATE IN Art History from Mills College, Oakland, California, Kit has published short stories and many articles on the art of writing and the writing business. She served as first fiction editor for Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine. She especially enjoys lecturing about the writing world and mentoring new writers. She is a long time member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and Mystery Women of the UK and was named one of Mills College’s Literary Women for 2007. Kit and her professor husband live on a small hilltop horse ranch in Northern California’s sublime wine country.

Reviews

[Jeannie and Louis Rigod · Rating 5 out of 5]

In a movie, location can add a zing to a movie. In this novel Location is not only the the 'where' the film is being made, but also, the 'where' is the literal monies to film the movie.

Margot and Max have been left an inheritance which allows them to go 'independent' and film their first completely controlled movie. The cast is set, the location is chosen, Panama, and the money is safe in their money-handler's care, or is it? When Charlie goes missing so does the funds. A madcap race to find the money and Charlie, of course, reminds me a bit of the movie, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World" and everyone looking for the famous "W."

We are introduced to thugs, cults, Estancias (Horse ranches) of questionable backers, hospitals, and Doctors that may be legit or not...Stars and their agents and 'Ta Ta's' (Not what you think,) and everyone's goal...to back this movie, financially.

Has Charlie been murdered, Margot is desperate to find him, and the movie wants to find the monies.

This is one terrific read.

[Kim Serene · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was my introduction to the Margo O'Banion and Max Skull series by Kit Sloan and I intend to read the others in this series as well. I this book Margot and Max find themselves in Panama trying to embark on filming a movie but faced with one catastrophe after another. Missing money, missing persons, and larger-than-life Hollywood personalities in an incredible setting make this book a real page turner. I enjoyed Sloane's characters quite a bit and her attention to detail in terms of setting was excellent.