Anne R Allen [Camilla Randall The Best Revenge (epub)

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.The Best RevengeA Camilla Randall MysterybyAnne R.AllenThis edition © Anne R.Allen 2011First published in Great Britain in 2005 by Babash-RyanOriginal copyright Ó 2005 Anne R.AllenAll rights reserved.ISBN Number: 978-1-908961-04-4Published by Mark Williams international Digital Publishing.www.mwidp.comCover design by Kate Smith.Introduction by Saffina Desforges.This prequel to the Camilla Randall Mysteries takes us back to the time when the teenaged Camilla first met her lifelong best friend, Plantagenet Smith.Long before the events of Ghostwriters in the Sky and Sherwood, Ltd, in 1980s New York, a time of big hair, coke-fueled society parties, and the rise of the greed-is-good One-Percenters, teen heiress Camilla Randall befriends Plantagenet Smith, a penniless young gay playwright.But they quarrel and he disappears in the direction of California.Soon after, Camilla is assaulted by her mother’s fiancé, smeared in the newspapers by a sexy muckraking journalist, and her family loses all their money in the Savings and Loan banking scandal.She hops into her DeLorean and sets off in search of Plantagenet, whom she realizes is her only real friend.But when she arrives in the Golden State, she discovers Plant has developed strange heterosexual tendencies and an inconvenient girlfriend.Camilla moves in with some wild-partying college friends, and when a famously debauched TV star tries to seduce her and then ends up dead, Camilla is arrested for his murder.In order to clear her name and find the real killer, she turns to a friendly sanitation worker, a dotty octogenarian neighbor and the hot muckraking newspaperman who ridiculed her—who also happens to be her boss.This “screwball” romantic comedy/mystery is reminiscent of the popular film comedies of the 1930s and 40s, the kind that starred Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, or Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant.It’s a romp of a read that you’ll find hard to put down.Sample chapters from Anne’s other works, including the other two books in the acclaimed Camilla Randall Mysteries series and Anne’s stand-alone novels Food of Love and The Gatsby Game, can be found at the end of this book.Saffina DesforgesUK best-selling author of Sugar & Spice and the Rose Red crime thriller series and the YA Holocaust novel Anca’s Story.Chapter 1—1982: Morning in AmericaCamilla fought her rising panic by clutching Plantagenet’s strong, Armani-clad arm as the Mâitre d’ led them to their usual table at Votre Maison.She had no idea how any debutante survived without a gay best friend.Plant seemed to read her mind, as always.“Stop worrying, darling.You look beautiful.Heartbreakingly beautiful.Any lurking Italian princes will be consumed with remorse for letting you slip through their cold, Eurotrash fingers.”Camilla kissed him on the cheek.Dear, dear Plantagenet.He was her fashion consultant, crying shoulder, and all around Gibraltar.She couldn’t have made it through the horrors of the past month without him.Plus he was the handsomest man in the room, which made it so much easier to face the possibility of running into her maybe-former boyfriend, Prince Aldo de Saxi-Cadenti.Aldo hadn’t called since her father’s funeral—with the same inexplicable cruelty as every other A-list friend she used to have.As they were seated at their lovely, well-lit table, Camilla envied the underdressed nobodies seated in the dark corner near the kitchen.Nobodies were allowed to hide in shadows—and even appear in public with puffy faces and red eyes—without anybody from the society pages commenting on how they were wallowing in grief.Camilla was a Randall.Randalls did not wallow.She squeezed Plant’s hand.“Is the make-up still covering the red around my eyes? I can’t let Sybil D-D know I’ve been crying.I don’t want to have to talk about Aldo.”Plantagenet gave her another look of reassurance as he ordered champagne.He was letting her blame the weepiness on her disappointment about Prince Aldo—although they both knew she’d been planning to dump him anyway.Plant was the perfect friend [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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