Okay, I admit it. Along with coffee, dark chocolate, and
foreign men named Raoul, I have an addiction.
I’m a sucker for the “You won’t guess
the ending” Whodunit.
I blame Agatha Christie for this addiction. She is also to blame for a lot of
eleven-year-old sleepless nights, as well as my father’s near heart attack in
1970 when I announced at the dinner table “I know thirteen ways to poison
people and not get caught.”
Christie was indeed the Queen of
Plot. After an appetizer of Nancy Drew,
I whipped through Poirot, Marple, and Tommy and Tuppence in less than two
years. Then I moved on to Sayers, Allingham, Marsh and any traditional
mysteries I could get my hands on.
Why?
It’s the chess game. The sheer
bliss of pitting my mind against the author’s to see if I can guess the killer
before the story’s detective.
To this day, I relish a book that plays
fair, leaves me the clues, and stumps me at the end.
So it’s no surprise that my second
published book, co-written with good friend Cynthia St-Pierre, is a traditional
whodunit.
Happy
Birthday, A PURSE TO DIE FOR!
Yes,
it’s been one year since our publisher launched this fun whodunit, and that
little book has travelled through the Amazon best-seller lists faster and
higher than we dared anticipate.
It
appears we are not alone in loving that killer surprise ending.
My
favorite line from the 61 reviews posted thus far?
“You’ll
be certain you know the killer. Twice. But you’ll be wrong.”
THAT
is what we set out to do. THAT is the
kind of book that makes me smile and gives me chills.
Like
a classic “You won’t guess the ending” whodunit? See if you can guess the killer in A PURSE TO
DIE FOR.
In the UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/A-Purse-Die-For-ebook/dp/B008IKA022/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357247150&sr=8-1
In Germany
In the US
Melodie Campbell is an award-winning author
of 40 short stories and 5 novels, including A Purse to Die For, co-written with
Cynthia St-Pierre. Melodie has won 6
awards for fiction, and is the Executive Director of Crime Writers of Canada.
My mother had a huge collection of whodunits and my father had a sizable collection of thrillers. I worked my way through Christie, Sayers and Marsh but I almost gave my Grade Four teacher a heart attack when I handed in a book report on Alex Hailey's Airport.
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