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A Map to Paradise by Susan Meissner Holiday Books One of the Best Books1956, Malibu, California: Something is not right on Paradise Circle. With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next door neighbor, Elwood, but the screenwriters agoraphobia allows for just short chats through open windows. Hes her sole confidante, though, as she and her housekeeper, Eva, an immigrant from war torn Europe, rarely make conversation. Then one early