So Much For Buckingham

By Anne R. Allen

Although this book is #5 in the series, it can be read as a stand-alone.

Camilla is in catastrophe mode again when her royalty checks stop coming from Sherwood, Ltd. and her blogger boyfriend Ronzo apparently commits suicide after a horrifying video of him circulates in social media.

Then Camilla commits a cardinal sin by responding to an online review, and is dubbed a "badly behaving author." She becomes the target of a cyberbullying campaign by online vigilantes.

Her best friend Plantagenet is facing tragedy too, when his new husband leaves him for a New Age guru five days after their wedding.

When Plant takes his single "honeymoon" to England to see a production of Shakespeare's Richard III, he travels to Lincolnshire to investigate Camilla's missing royalties. Unfortunately, he ends up accused of killing a historical reenactor—who was an ardent believer in the good character of Richard III, and the medieval monarch's innocence in the murder of the princes in the Tower.

Worse, it seems the ghost of King Richard —newly risen from his Leicester car-park—is the only witness to the murder of the reenactor, who had been dressed as Richard's nemesis, the Duke of Buckingham.

Will Plantagenet find the ghost of Richard III to prove his innocence?

Will Camilla's mysterious publisher, Peter Sherwood, rise from his watery grave to save Camilla from the cyberbullies?

And what does Camilla's new cat, Buckingham, know about Ronzo's mysterious death?

This comic novel—which takes its title from the most famous Shakespearean quote that Shakespeare never wrote—explores how easy it is to perpetrate a character assassination whether by a great playwright or a gang of online trolls.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anne R. Allen
• Release date: Oct 13, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310610912

Anne R. Allen

Anne R. Allen is the author of seven comic mysteries including the bestselling Camilla Randall Mysteries. She's co-author of How to be a Writer in the E-Age: a Self-Help Guide, written with NYT bestseller Catherine Ryan Hyde. She blogs at Anne R. Allen's Blog...with Ruth Harris, which Writer's Digest named to their Best 101 Websites for Writers in 2013. Anne is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and spent twenty-five years in the theater—acting and directing—before taking up fiction writing full time. She is the former artistic director of the Patio Playhouse in Escondido, CA and now lives on the Central Coast of California.