Biddy Ford - otherwise known as Lady Sugarcandy, star of stage and screen - was sick to the nerves. She knelt beside the toilet bowl and waited for it to pass. She was like this before every important occasion - movie premiers , opening nights, concerts. Every public appearance filled her from the tiara to the toe with awful, gut-churning fear. And today? Well she couldn't imagine a more important occasion. No wonder she felt so queasy.
The worst of it was over now, she thought; the nausea was subsiding at last. Putting both palms on the rim of the toilet, she began to push herself up.
She didn't hear the soft tread of footsteps behind her, or see anyone approach. Only when a hand grasped her head and forced it down did she realise something was terrifyingly wrong...
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Mystery / ThrillerMy name is Aimee Dowthwaite. I was dead excited about my first trip to America. But then people started getting themselves KILLED in really WEIRD ways. Nothing made sense until Marcus and I investigated, then the MURDERS seemed to tie together as ne...