Excerpt & #Giveaway – Shadow Dancing by Julie Mulhern @JulieKMulhern #cozy #mystery
Shadow Dancing (The Country Club Murders)
Cozy Mystery
7th in Series
Henery Press (June 19, 2018)
Print Length: 210 pages
Synopsis
Visiting a psychic is outside the norm for Ellison Russell. Finding bodies is not. Unfortunately, the psychic’s crystal ball says she’ll soon be surrounded by death. Again.
Drat.
Now there’s a corpse in the front drive, a witchy neighbor ready to turn Ellison and her (not so) little dog into toadstools, and a stripper named Starry Knight occupying the guest room.
How did 1975 go so wrong so quickly?
Ellison must handle Mother (who’s found a body of her own), make up with a certain handsome detective, and catch a killer, or the death surrounding her might be her own.
Excerpt
“Bye, Mom.” Grace deposited her dirty cereal bowl in the sink, dropped a kiss on my cheek, and headed for the back door.
“Dishwasher?”
With a dramatic sigh, she returned to the counter and moved the bowl from sink to dishwasher.
“Are you home for dinner?” I asked.
“Yeah.” She buttoned her coat and disappeared into the cold.
“Love you,” I called after her.
Max stood, stretched, yawned, and returned to his bed.
I sipped coffee and stared at the wall, deep in thought.
Aggie bustled into the kitchen and I shifted my attention from the wall to my housekeeper. She wore a cobalt blue kaftan edged with crimson pom-poms. Her red hair crackled with energy.
“Do you have a minute?” I asked.
“Of course.”
“Mother has a problem.” Those two words. Mother and problem. They were enough to send the bravest woman running.
But not Aggie. Aggie pulled out a stool and sat. “I figured something was wrong. No one calls that often without a big problem.”
About the Author
Julie Mulhern is the USA Today bestselling author of The Country Club Murders. She 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.
Ellen Levickis
This is a book I’d love the opportunity to read.
holdenj
I am looking forward to reading this and catching up with Ellison!
Dianne Casey
I really liked the description of the book. This is a new series to me. Sounds like a great read.
Kay Garrett
Thank you for the spotlight On and excerpt from “Shadow Dancing” by Julie Mulhern as well as for being part of the book tour.
The storyline sounds like one I’d very much enjoy. I’d very much love the opportunity to read this book.