Heh...you've been reading Evanovich, right? Not that that's really quite the same sort of thing...but from the one book I read, I can kind of imagine shoes being part of the plot. ;-)
Darn Tootin'. Evanovich is up on a pedestal.
But I think my character will have a bigger personal growth arc than Evanovich ever writes. Heroine will start off kind of ditzy, but as she gets scared she'll get determined and very brave. I hope she'll be a very different person at the end of it.