Dying for Christmas (39 page)

Thanks also to Stuart Gibbon for advice on police procedure. Any mistakes that remain are totally my own.

And, as ever, a big thank-you to Michael, Otis, Jake and Billie, and to our dog Doris, whose daily walks provided the much-needed thinking time to untangle many a knot in the plot.

About the Author

Tammy Cohen
is a freelance journalist. A late starter to fiction (and to other things besides), her previous four novels are
The Mistress’s Revenge
,
The War of the Wives
,
Someone Else’s Wedding
and
The Broken
. She is a Writer in Residence at Kingston University and lives in North London with her partner and three (nearly) grown children, plus one very badly behaved dog.

Follow her on Twitter
@MsTamarCohen

Do you love Tammy Cohen’s books? Try these:

THE MISTRESS’S REVENGE
Her sharp debut novel written as a journal addressed by a former mistress to the married lover who dumped her.
Never have an affair with someone who has less to lose than you.

THE WAR OF THE WIVES
A happily married woman whose husband dies unexpectedly is confronted at his funeral by a woman who claims that she was his wife.
At your husband’s funeral, you don’t expect to discover his other wife.

SOMEONE ELSE’S WEDDING
The story of a wife and her grown-up family whose secrets come shimmering to the surface at a wedding: told in real-time over thirty-six hours.
Sometimes a wedding can ruin a marriage.

THE BROKEN
A couple are sucked into their best friends’ bitter divorce with devastating results for all.
When close friends split, be careful whose side you’re on.

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