Bad Sisters – Rebecca Chance

Bad Sisters
Rebecca Chance

Three sisters, one deadly secret.

Deeley is the fake wife of a gay Hollywood hunk. But now her contract is up, and Deeley is left penniless and alone. Devon is married to rugby-hunk Matt, and hosts her own TV cookery show. But behind her buxom facade, Devon is desperately lonely. Maxie is politician’s wife, and fiercely ambitious. So when Deeley threatens to expose their past, just how far will Maxie go to keep it hidden?

Sex, crime, politics, a TV chef, a celebrity ‘IT’ girl; these are the ingredients whisked together for the delicious mix of Bad Sisters.

The three McKenna sisters: gorgeous Deeley – blonde, slim and tanned, having just stepped off the plane from her return from LA life; skinny, well-dressed Maxie, in her designer label clothes and designer show-room house, married to politician and prime minister hopeful Ollie; and sumptious chef Devon, with her pouting lips and voluptuous curves, playing up to the camera and salivating over the dishes she prepares – are the three ‘bad’ sisters all hiding a terrible secret.

Not only are they hiding a secret, they seem prepared to trample over each other in the process.

There’s Deeley, with an ever-growing crush on Devon’s husband Matt, the professional sportsman with the chunky legs and the gorgeous face that interviewers simper over; and Maxie, furious that Deeley has returned to London, bringing with her the tacky tabloid interviews and holding Maxie up to public shame. And then there’s Devon, disappearing off to Italy and leaving Deeley to look after her husband with his recent sports injury, unaware that Deeley will take care and compassion to the next level.

This makes them all sound horribly bitchy and selfish, when actually Chance does paint them with considerable sympathy. Especially Devon, whose comfort-eating and extreme frustration in her marriage has left her squeezing into clothes, detesting her reflection and detesting further the constant jibes from the press.

Deeley’s ‘fake’ marriage to ‘gay’ Nikki in LA has crumpled around her, leaving her with a one-way ticket back to London: no job, no income, and no prospects.  As a post-Trophy wife, she has no skills to offer and has to content herself with living in the basement flat of her sister’s home; sisters that don’t want her around.

And then there’s Maxie, the apple-cart of her perfect politician life has just been upturned by her thoughtless little sister, returning with tabloid tales and noseying back into memories of their childhood, threatening to ruin everything.

Read by Chance’s very own sister, Lisa Milne Henderson, I thoroughly enjoyed this as an audio book.  The narration was excellent, the accents of the different characters propelled me immediately into the London celebrity lifestyle and to Devon’s Italian holiday.

The book was bursting with twist and turns, not to mention many sexy scenes and plenty of crime and drama.

Brilliantly written and fantastically narrated, this is the work of two very talented sisters.

Rating: ★★★★★