Hell's Belles! competition!

So... Headline publish the fourth Brenda and Effie Mystery, 'Hell's Belles!' in about a month's time!

I thought I'd run a little competition here on my blog to give away five copies of the new book...

All you have to do is complete the following in fifty words or less...

'I'd like to travel to Whitby and meet Brenda and Effie because...'

Email your entries direct to this site, or to my email or project it through the astral plane if you like. (Actually, there's an easy-to-fill-in-form, just a click away from this site's front page...)

Just so long as we get plenty of funny, pithy, poignant or ridiculous replies. I'll judge the five best and Headline will send you the brand new book!

To get you started, here's the wonderful Jill Mansell - the Queen of Chicklit herself:

"I'd like to travel to Whitby and meet Brenda and Effie because I'm incurably nosy and love to speculate about other 'normal' people's lives. What are they hiding? Who else is staying at Brenda's B&B? And that odd-shaped skull for sale in Effie's shop...whose skull is it and why does it sometimes seem to smile...?"

So - go on, give it a go! I know the adventurous ladies of Whitby have got fans out there, keen to get their hands on the new volume...!

(oh, and thanks to the marvellous Bret Herholz for his interpretation of Brenda and Effie... looking rather stylish and 1920s, there...)