A perfect life, a perfect love – and a perfect murder.

Loving Frankie was easy but teenage Carol wasn’t the only woman Frankie charmed. Tired of Frankie’s cheating ways, Carol kills him and buries him in her orchard.

Forty years later Frankie’s grave will be found and Carol’s guilt revealed. As she writes her confession before they arrest her, she discovers other friends lied. The truth should free her, but their betrayal demands revenge. Will she atone for her sins and kill the innocent girl she was, or will that girl exact retribution?

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Read Killing The Girl and ask yourself what would you do if you had a Frankie in your life?

Winner of a ‘Chill With A Book Premier Readers Award’ and ‘Chill With A Book’ book of the month for October 2020.

My Review

After I finished reading this book I was left wondering if I had really understood it. Carol is a very complex character. I can’t pretend that I liked her that much. I have to remember how young she was in 1970, when she became obsessed with Frankie. I say obsessed because I don’t believe it was true love.

Frankie was handsome, charming, charismatic – all the things the other boys were not. And four years older than her. His parents lived in London, his father an eminent gynecologist and his mother a social snob. Carol’s family and friends were working class. Frankie’s family would never accept her as marriage material.

Most of the time I wanted to shake her. Don’t be fooled by his charm, I would say to her. Don’t throw your life away for him. He’s a playboy and a narcissist and he’s just after your inheritance so he can live it up in France with his horrible university chums.

In 2016, Carol’s home, Oaktree House, is about to be demolished, so she has written her confession. When they dig up the garden – which they will inevitably do – they will find Frankie’s body buried under the bushes. She knows this because she killed him when she made the first of many horrifying discoveries. But those discoveries will pale into nothing compared to the secrets she uncovers later on.

Carol sees herself as a ‘victim’, her life having been ruined by the three men who have tried to control her. But she’s actually driven by obsession, sex and jealousy. Sometimes I found her ‘thoughts’ unbearable to read. At times I wondered if she’s schizophrenic and there is this other girl living inside her head. But maybe that’s because she’s forever taking diazepam or antidepressants or being treated for her mental instability in a psychiatric hospital. It takes her decades to realise that she is not unstable, but that she has been made to believe it by others.

However, I may have got it completely wrong. Perhaps if she was nicer and stopped saying everyone was only interested in their own problems when she is only interested in her own, I would have been more sympathetic.

It’s wonderfully written, full of beautiful descriptive language that really draws you in, and while at times it messed with my head, I really loved it.

Many thanks to @zooloo2008 for inviting me to be part of this blog tour.

About the Author

Elizabeth loves writing about women who kill. She has published a short story for fans of dark humour called, My Best Christmas Ever, as well as an award-winning novel, Killing The Girl.

We all love a great murder mystery and Killing The Girl explores the reasons why an ordinary woman kills. What pushes her to her limit of endurance and sanity? Could that woman be you?

That theme is also explored with a humorous slant in her dark short story, My Best Christmas Ever. What would you do if you discovered your husband was having an affair just before Christmas?

Killing The Girl has been awarded an Indie BRAG medallion and a ‘Chill With A Book’ Premier Readers Award – also winning Book Of The Month for October 2020.

Elizabeth is now working on her second novel; Safe With Me. Women who kill, and their reasons, are the impetus behind her novels. Elizabeth is a member of The Alliance of Independent Authors, The Bristol Fiction Writers Group, and Noir At The Bar, Bath. She was a speaker at the 2019 Bristol Festival of Literature. Elizabeth lives in Bristol, UK.

Follow Elizabeth at:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wickedwriteruk
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Website : https://wickedwriter.uk/

Book Links
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60615510-killing-the-girl
Buy Link – https://mybook.to/wwIiUmT