Title: The Deep End
The Country Club Murders #1
Author: Julie Mulhern
ISBN: 9781941962268
Publisher: Henery Press
Source: Advance copy via NetGalley
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Rating: 5 out of 5
Synopsis:
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?
Review:
The Deep end is the debut mystery novel by Julie Mulhern. One early morning in 1974, Ellison Russel, an artist, heads to her country club for her routine morning swim. She didn’t expect to find the body of her husband’s mistress floating in the pool. Now life is not only complicated for Ellison and her daughter Grace, but also messy and confusing. Then Henry, Ellison’s husband disappears and two more mistresses show up.
The Deep End is a classic mystery with red herrings and clues sprinkled throughout. It has an Agatha Christie feel to it. I enjoyed this book thoroughly. Ellison is such a lovable character, you feel bad for her but she holds it together with her dry humour and sarcastic comments/dialogues in her head! All the people in her world are fully-fleshed out and add so much detail to her story.
I highly recommend the The Deep End.
The cover shows that The Deep End is book one of The Country Club Murders. I’m eager to read the next book in the series.
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