I Believed You

A Fatal Game of Romance Roulette I believed you … When spoken aloud, these words elicit sympathy for the betrayed, but in a novel of the same name, one has to wonder if pity is deserved when the truth of a wicked love triangle is unveiled.

Pathologist Clifford Wilson is slicing into his first autopsy patient of the day. But it’s not just any day … or any patient – it’s the love of his life. Clifford has loved Madeline Manning since the moment he spotted her across a room at a party. But Ernie Engleman loves her, too. And she loves them both, doesn’t she?

Written with the succinct flair and shrewd pace of a master storyteller, Shirley Guendling’s thriller proves that love is murder … when you fall for the wrong sweetheart.

Each player in the fatal game of romance roulette ups the stakes to outwit and outplay the others, unaware that a catastrophic end is looming as the finger of blame shifts as readily as the hands of a clock. Time is all too short for the mysterious and exotic Madeline.

A speedy and seductive romp that readers will have no choice but to finish in one breathless sitting, I Believed You traces the journey of young lovers through the wilds of passion and revenge. Has Clifford’s fascination with death turned morbid, or is someone else to blame for Madeline’s untimely demise?

In her first novel, Shirley Guendling brings to life characters we alternately cheer for and jeer, and plot twists that leave readers unable to anticipate the owner of the murderous heart until they reach the last delicious page.