''A Wicked Tongue is worse than any fiend.'' (Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Manciple''s Tale, 1395).Tongues are wagging in a sleepy English seaside town after a well-respected couple die within weeks of each other.Businessman Sam Shepton killed himself. At his inquest, his heartbroken son blamed his mother, Amanda, branding her a ''black widow''. A few days later he discovers her body.The talking begins, accusations are made, secret lives are revealed.Was Amanda killed because of her husband''s death? Was her murder a ''personal'' crime or the start of a serial-killer spree?Everyone''s words have consequences and it''s clear that careless talk really CAN cost lives...Author Vicki Fitzgerald (Briguella, Kill List) described this book as "Wickedly warped. Sensational. A chilling, compulsive, character-driven thriller with a killer twist."
