Imagine a deranged lunatic running rampant among the crowd while some senior women are busy touching up their makeup and powdering their cheeks for a beauty pageant.
Horrifying and funny at the same time! While a victim struggles to escape the tragedy, others are getting dolled up for a rigged show.
That’s the beauty of comedic suspense thrillers. It is the contrasting point of view that’s both fascinating and ironic at the same time. With every flip of the page, the amount of intrigue, thrill, and tension is mediated by some comedic charm. It’s a skill very few authors can master, and Annie Wall is topping the list right now with her murder mystery series, The Secrets of Springfield.
The book depicts a world of intrigue, cackles, and a gruesome murder mystery surrounding a senior beauty pageant in the small town of Springfield, where women over 50 participate. It is an annual competition where women from all over the country would (figuratively speaking) “kill” to win a white sash and a beautiful silver crown embellished with rhinestones. Sadly, this year, someone actually got killed backstage.
The crime scene is devastating, smelling like puke, with a crazy woman crying, shouting, and saying the corpse is alive. The contest has to come to an end without a queen. What remains are the witches, bitches, and wannabes. The responsibility is upon Detective Quimby and Lily’s shoulders now; they must find the culprit among the contestants, who claim to be all sweet and dainty but stab and bite each other when their backs are turned.
The story starts at the Stiletto Theatre in Springfield as the contestants begin flooding the dressing rooms. Each contestant is unique and crazier than the other, with one thing that unites them: their hate for Naomi, the director and organizer of the Springfield senior beauty pageant.
Naomi was famous for being a queen bitch who always played favorites. Rumor has it that she has been spending lavishly from the charity money raised from the pageant rather than helping foster children. But even though everyone hated her for rigging the pageant and self-centered attitude, no one thought that her lifeless body would be found with her head inside the backstage toilet. It’s devastating, but more than that, it’s disappointing and a hassle for the wannabes now; everyone suspects each other and has their reason to hate Naomi, but not enough to murder her so brutally.
Detective Quimby and Lily have ruled it a homicide, but the truth is even scarier. Springfield, a town with zero crime rate, suddenly has a sly murderer roaming the streets; they might be sipping some latte at a café or getting a perm at a salon. No one knows who it is, but one thing is for sure: they are not stopping at one murder.
Detective Quimby and Lily must solve the mystery and get to the perpetrator before another life is taken. Annie Wall removes the veil from the cruel intentions people hide behind empty smiles and the lengths they would go for a spineless title, dozens of roses, and social validation. Delve into the world of botched self-proclaimed wannabees, and their attempts to prove themselves innocent in Annie Wall’s new murder mystery, “Witches, Bitches, and Wannabe Queens: A True Story Except for All the Crap I Made Up and I Made Up a Lot of Crap,” now live on Amazon.
