Book Excerpt
The pool was relatively quiet and we secured lounge
chairs in the filtered shade of the lanai. Then came the production of
positioning towels and applying suntan oil.
“You’re sure we can’t sit in the sun?” Libba grumbled.
I tapped my head. “Mild concussion. I probably
shouldn’t be here at all.”
That shut her up. She probably had to keep me at the
pool for at least an hour before Mother made good on her ambiance promise.
“Do you want a drink?” she asked.
I tapped my head again. “I can’t.”
“Iced tea?”
“Thank you.”
“I’ll just go get it.” She headed not toward the snack
bar but inside where she could procure my tea and something tall and cool with
an umbrella. Poor woman. She probably needed a drink. Mother had that effect on
people.
Nearby a contingent of young mothers eagle-eyed their
toddlers in the baby pool. A few kids played a half-hearted game of Marco Polo
in the big pool. Across the pool deck sat a woman tanned to the exact shade of
roasted almonds. She wore a bikini designed for a younger woman, one who lost
the top when she went cruising on a Greek shipping magnate’s yacht. She also
wore enormous dark glasses that hid half her face. Didn’t matter. I could still
feel Kitty Ballew’s stare. Did she know how completely out of place she looked
at a pool where women wore Lilly and kids wore Speedos? Did she care?
I glanced at my watch. I gave it two minutes before
she found an excuse to come ask me where Henry was.
It took her a minute – and a good thirty seconds of
that minute was devoted to tying a towel around her waist just so.
About the Book
Title: The Deep End
Author: Julie Mulhern
Genre: Cozy Mystery / Women’s Fiction
Swimming into the lifeless body of her
husband’s mistress tends to ruin a woman’s day, but becoming a murder
suspect can ruin her whole life.
It’s 1974 and Ellison Russell’s life
revolves around her daughter and her art. She’s long since stopped
caring about her cheating husband, Henry, and the women with whom he
entertains himself. That is, until she becomes a suspect in Madeline
Harper’s death. The murder forces Ellison to confront her husband’s
proclivities and his crimes—kinky sex, petty cruelties and blackmail.
As the body count approaches par on the
seventh hole, Ellison knows she has to catch a killer. But with an
interfering mother, an adoring father, a teenage daughter, and a cadre
of well-meaning friends demanding her attention, can Ellison find the
killer before he finds her?
Author Bio
Julie
Mulhern is a Kansas City native who grew up on a steady diet of Agatha
Christie. She spends her spare time whipping up gourmet meals for her
family, working out at the gym and finding new ways to keep her house
spotlessly clean–and she’s got an active imagination. Truth is–she’s an
expert at calling for take-out, she grumbles about walking the dog and
the dust bunnies under the bed have grown into dust lions. She is a 2014
Golden Heart® Finalist. The Deep End is her first mystery and is the
winner of The Sheila Award.
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