A murderous confessional full of twists and turns Friendship Can Be Murder! Reviewers said: "...the heroine is completely without morals...You really should not like her, but you find yourself wishing her every success in her increasingly bizarre schemes and personal entanglements""Outstandingly witty, daft, exciting and so enjoyable!! This is the best book I have read in a long time. Exquisite!!""...enables the reader to enter into the twisted world of the main character ... reading her journal ... you take voyeuristic pleasure in her inner thoughts, plans & audacious exploits"At the end of book 2, Cressida Barker-Powell-Hopkins was fighting for her life in hospital after being mowed down by her former best friend, now arch-nemesis Monica in a hit and run murder attempt. When Cressida finally wakes, she vows vengeance in this, the third book of the Posh Hits trilogy. But she's still recovering from her injuries, she's got a limp, is feeling depressed, and her murdering skills are a bit rusty. To make things worse, her arch-enemy seems to have moved house. What on earth can Cressida do now? Fortunately she knows people who know people.As her loved ones rally round, Cressida gets her mojo back and gets back on the trail of her former best friend, and as ever, confides her plans and schemes to her journal.Will she ever get back to reading Vogue with Billie? Why are dead flowers coming to the house?Buy Check Mate: Book 3 of the Friendship Can Be Murder trilogy now for a dark, humorous tale of murder, revenge and choosing the right outfit for a dastardly deed. Extract from Check Mate: Book 3 of the Friendship Can Be Murder trilogy: I paused for a moment to allow my eyes to adjust to this deeper darkness, and once I found the bath, sank down on the side of it to allow my jelly legs a few moments of recovery before leaving this sanctuary to complete my mission. I saw now that the door was open, and beyond the bathroom, the hall was dense deepest black. No sound came to my ears. In the doorway I paused again, to get my bearings and to allow my thumping heart to calm. I eased the bathroom door almost shut, and with a quick flash of my torch, checked around the room. I determined that I could easily doctor the mouthwash, both the open one and the new bottle I found in the cabinet. I tipped away about a quarter of the contents of the open one down the sink and added the same amount of the ethylene glycol-rich anti-freeze I had brought with me in fizzy pop bottle.I filled the syringe, and pushed the needle into the plastic near the lid of the new bottle to make a hole. I squeezed out a good inch and a half of mouthwash and then topped the level up again from the syringe. I felt pretty pleased with myself. I'd made almost no noise and caused no disturbance. My confidence rocketed. Time to find that kitchen.It's not easy finding your way around someone else's house in the middle of the night. It takes forever to go anywhere as you have your hands stretched out in front of you, and you have to feel each step of the way. The last thing I wanted was to bump into a shelf of ornaments or fall down the stairs.By the time I had finally reached the kitchen, I was mentally and physically exhausted. There were a number of useful items in the fridge that I knew I would be able to 'enhance'. For example, the plastic container of leftover peach slices in syrup. I added a little splosh to that. Buy Check Mate: Book 3 of the Friendship Can Be Murder trilogy now for a dark, humorous tale of murder, revenge and choosing the right outfit for a dastardly deed.Criss Cross, Alfred Hitchcock, Strangers On A Train, Patricia Highsmith, Bridget Jones, dark humour, murder mystery romance, cozy murder mystery, romantic suspense, humorous fiction, diary-based fiction, women's contemporary fiction, women's detective fiction, amoral hero heroine, flawed hero heroine
About the Author: I was born in Kent in the south of England and then moved to Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire before my family and I moved out to Brisbane, Australia. We lived there for five eventful years, which provided plenty of material for my novels and short stories. I mainly write in the mystery/crime genre but I also enjoy dabbling in fantasy fiction. I write articles and also offer Author Services in the form of proofreading, editing, beta-reading and blogging. Married with two grown up children and now living in Derbyshire, England, I have previously worked as a railway ticket clerk, a classroom assistant, a secondhand bookshop assistant, an archivist, and a university administrator. Now I divide my time between taking pictures of my cats and proofreading/editing as a freelancer as well as writing my own books and short stories. When not plotting how to kill people (for the books, of course!) I can often be found trawling the aisles of my local grocery stores in pursuit of everyday items with lethal potential. Other interests include literary studies, history, cats, cooking, gardening, family tree research and chatting on Facebook. I self-published my first eBook in the Friendship can be Murder trilogy, Criss Cross, in 2013 and the follow-up, Cross Check in 2014. The third book of the Friendship can be Murder Trilogy, Check Mate, appeared in February 2016. In 2016, I introduced a whole new set of characters in my new murder mystery series set in London in the 1930s. These are very much of the classic Golden age style, and feature amateur sleuth Dottie Manderson, and police officer William Hardy. The first book was Night and Day: a Dottie Manderson mystery. Book 2 is The Mantle of God: a Dottie Manderson mystery and was released in December 2017. In 2018, novella Scotch Mist and full-length novel The Last Perfect Summer of Richard Dawlish will be added to the Dottie Manderson series. Please say hello on my Facebook page: https: //www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008911184734 or you might prefer Twitter: https: //twitter.com/caron_allan I'm also on: Goodreads: http: //www.goodreads.com/author/show/7030550.Caron_Allan and Google+: https: //plus.google.com/u/0/+CaronAllan/posts