This book deserves five stars for just the scene where Eve is dashing back and forth between two hospital rooms and two women giving birth. The baby shower is a close second. And Roarke and Eve's reactions when two women go into labor in their home is a definite third. All of them are wonderfully funny. I love the way Eve is working two cases at once, going without much needed sleep along with Roarke, while she juggles the two and barely beats out the babies' arrivals with a solution to both cases, thereby justifying the two days without sleep. There are one or two great moments between Sommerset and Eve, many laughs when Eve and Roarke panic over the back-up coaching, and I'm happy to say that even Mavis is not all sweetness and light when in labor as she gives her honey-bear Leonardo a few knocks. It has become a game to see in each book the different endearments Mavis comes up with for Leonardo. Some of them are priceless. No candy thief in this one, although there is a brief reference to him/her and several references to the previous short, Haunted in Death, which I did not catch the first time I read the book, since I didn't read them in order. Now I am.