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Undercover Tai Taiby Maya O. CalicaISBN: 978 981 261 609 8 Paperpack 223pp November 2008 Price: S$16.50
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Capoeira-fighting loner Amanda goes through life virtually unnoticed. But when a celebrated tai tai disappears off a luxury cruiser one evening, Amanda’s quiet life is sent into a tailspin.
A chance meeting with brooding intelligence officer Brian is the juggernaut that instantaneously changes her destiny from book researcher to undercover operative, hired to investigate the case of the missing tai tai. With a team of experts to help her—including a crime-fighting chihuahua—Amanda goes about solving the mystery in designer outfits, false eyelashes and high heels.
From smouldering nights at chichi dance clubs to vanity cruises on thehigh seas—where she meets dashing and oftentimes dangerous men—Amanda sets out on a journey to uncover the truth, and reluctantly, about her own past.
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Maya O Calica, 41, has been writing for magazines for over a decade. She is Filipina, and graduated from the University of Santo Tomas with a degree in AB Communications, Magna Cum Laude.
She was managing editor-in-chief of Candy, a homegrown teenage title, after which she was tapped to be the launching editor of Seventeen Philippines, the first international edition of the American teenage magazine. She moved to Singapore in 2004, and lived a very indulgent life as Female magazine's Lifestyle editor, and later on as its Beauty and Wellness editor. She is currently editor for Smile, Cebu Pacific Airlines' dynamic inflight magazine.
In 2003, she authored The Breakup Diaries, published by Summit Books. The book is a bestseller, and went on its second print run after 7 months. Her first novel is currently being produced as a special TV mini-series on ABC Channel 5 in her native Philippines. Undercover Tai Tai is her second novel, and she has a few books lined up in the future.
She also dabbles in photography and painting, and is into holistic healing who practices yoga and Reiki.
The idea for Undercover Tai Tai came to her while she was getting a facial, and the rest of the characters came to her in bits and pieces. The main character, Amanda, wasn't inspired by one specific person, but her rather paranoid detective mind is much like that of Maya's sister, Pinky. The closest to a real character in the book is Alexis, the Chihuahua — which is patterned after Alexis, her nieces’ puppy.
