Friendship, betrayal take centre stage in playful mystery

IF YOU are in need of a weekend escape, not the kind that involves a passport, visa but the kind where you turn off the news, detox from your phone, sink into your couch and forget about everything for a few hours, Gloria Chao’s book is what you need to get your hands on.

- Gloria Chao

Chao’: latest book, The Ex-girlfriend Murder Club is a playful mystery that begins with a breakup, builds into a revenge play and detours into an amateur sleuthing when the shared ex-boyfriend winds up dead.

Kathryn Hun, a socially awkward chemist thought she finally met someone special, but when she accidentally interrupts his proposal to another woman she learns she is not the only one he’s been lying to.

That woman, Olivia teams up with Kat and they discover a third girlfriend Elle. Together the trio forms a revenge plot, but before they can follow through, they find Tucker Jones, their charming ex dead in his cupboard.