Julie Mulhern
Ellison Jones is used to sirens in the night (unfortunately, they're usually coming to her house).
So, it's a surprise when the sirens that wake her from the dead come from across the street.
Nosy neighbor Marian Dixon's house is on fire.
Luckily, the Dixons are out of town.
Unluckily, there's a body found in the ashes—a body not killed by the fire.
With Ellison's
...2) Big Shot
Ellison and Anarchy Jones are looking forward to a relaxing weekend in the country. Time spent skeet shooting, fishing, and horse-back riding with friends. Hours spent swaying in a shady hammock without friends.
But when Ellison walks into a murder scene, her friends become suspects. And each of them has an excellent motive for murder.
Can Ellison sift through the lies and unmask a killer, or will a weekend away
...3) Lyin' Eyes
Get me to the church on time!
Not so much the church, as the patio. And not if Ellison can't stop finding bodies.
She's finding corpses in pairs now, and planning a wedding, and trying (truly, she is) to steer clear of the murder investigation. But when she finds a third body, Ellison becomes a suspect.
Will Ellison get her happily ever after or will a devious killer turn her wedding into a funeral?
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Ellison Russell Jones' best friend Libba has a questionable track record when it comes to men. But finally—finally—she's selected a good one.
Charlie Ardmore hales from a fine family, plays a mean game of golf, and is a cardiologist.
Even Mother approves.
But when Charlie's patients start dying, the whispers begin. Is Charlie a killer?
Could Harrington Walford, Ellison's
...5) Night Moves
Spring is in the air, and Ellison Russell has places to go, people to see, bodies to find. Strike that. For once, Ellison doesn't discover the body.
When Detective Anarchy Jones investigates a friend's husband's murder, Ellison can't help but get involved.
Now she's waist-deep in toxic gossip, struggling with the soaring heights and nocuous lows of her teenager's mood swings, fending off the advances of her first
...6) Evil Woman
When Ellison Russell Jones returns from her honeymoon, she's ready for a restful summer.
But while she was away, an older woman was murdered in her bed. And the police have questions only Ellison and her friends can answer.
She gets to be a sleuth. A real one! But with a new husband, her mother in the hospital (targeted by the murderer?), her sister as a house guest, one too many animals, and a full social calendar, Ellison can't
...Springtime. Love is in the air. So is murder.
When Ellison Russell, reluctant finder of bodies, chairs a gala in conjunction with the museum's Chinese funerary exhibit, she expects disaster. So, she's not remotely surprised when a body turns up.
Ellison is willing to leave the investigation to the police till an attempt is made on her life.
Now she's juggling evading a killer, her aunt's overly-amorous beau, her dog's new love
...8) Killer Queen
Another day, another dead woman in Ellison Russell's study.
Only this one claimed to be Mrs. Anarchy Jones.
As Ellison juggles mothers, daughter, unhappy wives, and near-miss murder attempts, one thing is clear—someone will go to any lengths to hide the truth.
Can Ellison and Anarchy catch a killer before the body count rises? Or will Ellison be the next corpse in the study?
A killer is calling, and Ellison's life is on the line.
Ellison Russell is planning the event of the season—and she's stressed. Why not yoga?
Because the yoga instructor gets murdered during class—and Ellison's stress level rises exponentially. Now, in addition to raising a ridiculous amount of money, she's babysitting a deranged cat (named after the devil himself), taking ten million phone calls (most of them from Mother),
...No good deed goes unpunished.
The trouble started in Greece with a favor for her new step-father. When Poppy Fields picked up a package in Athens, she had no idea how many people were interested in its contents. Desperately interested. Murderously interested.
Now she's on the run, racing across Turkey in a cat-and-mouse game with multiple killers. Because what's in the package could change the world.
All Ellison Russell wanted was an update on her stock portfolio. Instead, she found her broker dead.
With an unexpected out-of-town guest at her house, Ellison is too busy for a murder investigation. Only this time, Detective Anarchy Jones wants her help, and she can't deny the handsome detective. Can Mr. Coffee supply her with enough caffeine to keep her brain sharp and everyone else happy?
Juggling bodies (one, two, three, four),
...INTRIGUING PLOT, FASCINATING CHARACTERS...
"Part mystery, part women's fiction, part poetry, Mulhern's debut, The Deep End, will draw you in with the first sentence and entrance you until the last. An engaging whodunit that kept me guessing until the end!" – Tracy Weber, Author of the Downward Dog Mysteries
Swimming into the lifeless body of her husband's mistress tends to ruin a woman's day, but becoming a
...13) Diamond Girl
From USA Today bestselling author, Julie Mulhern, comes a short worthy of the Country Club Murders name.
For Aggie DeLucci, former assistant private investigator and current housekeeper extraordinaire, 1975 is turning out to be a banner year. There's a new man her life, Mac. He makes her laugh, takes her dancing, and makes a helluva salami sandwich.
When Mac is accused of theft, it's up to Aggie to clear his name. She'll have to polish
...Frances Walford's daughter, Ellison Russell, has developed the truly deplorable habit of finding bodies. And Frances can't help but scold her about it.
But when Ellison goes to Europe, Frances finds a corpse of her own.
Can she help catch a killer and keep her involvement a secret?
This is a short novella told from Frances's point of view. Chronologically it falls between The Deep End and Guaranteed to Bleed.
With his dying breath, Bobby Lowell begs Ellison Russell, "Tell her I love her."
Unable to refuse, Ellison struggles to find the girl the murdered boy loved. Too bad an epically bad blind date, a vindictive graffiti artist, and multiple trips to the emergency room keep getting in the way.
Worse, a killer has Ellison in his sights, her newly-rebellious daughter is missing, and there's yet another body in her hostas.
...USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
"An impossible-to-put-down Harvey Wallbanger of a mystery. With a smart, funny protagonist who's learning to own her power as a woman, Send in the Clowns is one boss read." – Ellen Byron, Agatha Award-Nominated Author of Plantation Shudders
Haunted houses are scary enough without knife-wielding clowns. Especially murderous knife-wielding clowns. So thinks Ellison
...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
...Ellison Russell's life resembles a rollercoaster ride. And rollercoasters make her ill. Her daughter Grace has a crush on a boy Ellison doesn't trust and she's taken to hosting wild parties when Ellison goes out for the evening. Worse, the bank which represents Grace's inheritance from her father may be in trouble.
When a meeting with the chef at the country club leads to the discovery of a body, Ellison can't afford cold feet. She must
...USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
Ellison Russell wanted a decorator, not a corpse. Too bad she finds Mrs. White in the study killed with a revolver. Things go from bad to worse when she finds Mr. White in the dining room killed with a candlestick. With so many bodies, is it any wonder Detective Anarchy Jones' new partner considers Ellison a suspect?
With the country club gossips talking a mile a minute, an unexpected
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