Shirley Ballas, the head judge on the UK’s Strictly Come Dancing has moved dancing from our screens to our bookshelf with her thrilling novel MURDER ON THE DANCEFLOOR…
Behind the sequins and the sparkles, the competition is about to turn deadly . . .
When a promising young dancer collapses during the opening tango of a major competition, Lily Richmond, dance legend, teacher and one-time world champion, is convinced that murder is afoot.
There’s only one person who can help Lily solve the mystery: her former student, now turned private detective, Susie Cooper. But Susie vowed she’d never return to the ballroom …
As the competition gets fiercer and the bodies pile up, Susie will be forced to go undercover in Blackpool and come face to face with a man she thought she’d left behind. Can Lily and Susie unravel the rumours from the rumbas and expose the murderer’s identity before they strike again?
Sex, lies and ballroom dancing. Murder on the Dance Floor is a backstage pass to a world where the most ambitious will stop at nothing to win.
If you like your crime deadly and your romance spicy, look no further
It was with great surprise that CHRISANNE CLOVER was featured in her book ...
…“straight into the changing room, darling. We don’t have time for faffing around.’
Susie didn’t budge. ‘I think I’m capable of picking out my own dress.’
Not here at Chrisanne Clover’s ballroom-gown showroom she wasn’t…’ Lily.” Susie stuck her out of the door. ‘You don’t have to pay for it, just pick a cheap one.’
‘Inexpensive darling. Never cheap. There’s a difference.’ Lily got to work in what she called ‘the business end’ of the shop.
The couture section where dresses ran into the thousands and, as such, didn’t come with price tags.
Beyond the showroom lay a well-lit, sprawling room filled with every haberdashery item under the sky. At the far end was an inviting array of glue guns, specialized adhesives and threads, if personal embellishment was more you style. Feathers were available in every shade known to mankind. There were pompoms and tassels and enough sequins to bathe in. Reams of lace, Swarovski crystals by the fistful, and even diamonds, depending on the colour of your credit card.
Countless textured and imaginatively coloured fabrics filled yet another enormous hall. Silks, satins, georgette, milk fibre, mesh, chiffon, organza and tulle. Lily allowed herself a brief moment to close her eyes and inhale. It even smelt expensive. There had been more days in her life than there hadn’t when she wouldn’t have even allowed herself to think of walking in this store, let alone buying one of the couture dresses…
… So instead of returning home, she asked the driver to take her to the studio. She decided to try on the rehearsal skirt she might have accidentally bought while Susie was in the early phases of I-hate shopping. It was called the ‘Temptress’, and for good reason. Jet black, like the rest of her rehearsal clothes, the four-panelled skirt was made of a luxury crepe and featured a thigh-high split on the left. It was perfect for a dramatic dance like the paso doble...
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